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tacked by heavy ruffians, were to seize their assailants by the 

 wrist and hurl them over their right shoulder. The police 

 were to suppress rioters by mere muscular contraction. The 

 doctors, as before, were to grow extinct by starvation. But 

 where is jiu-jitsu to-day? 



"The world was to be regenerated by denatured alcohol. 

 Denatured alcohol — with the tax ofif — was to drive all our 

 machines, propel our automobiles, run our factories, and re- 

 duce the cost of Hving to a ridiculous minimum. But where 

 is denatured alcohol to-day? 



"The world was to be regenerated by sour milk ; by the 

 simple life ; by sleeping in the open air. But where now are 

 Professor Metchnikoff and Pastor Wagner? And the doc- 

 tors are still with us, even more numerous than before. 



"Does this show we must give up all hope of seeing a new 

 world about us? By no means. We still have eugenics, and 

 it is good for two or three years more. Then we shall ask 

 the same question about it." 



Suffice it to say that the latter method of saving the world, 

 by eugenics, is purely material, without reference to the 

 beauty of the soul within, or its expression in practical virtue. 



The Catholic Church, wiser than local faddists, has used 

 the nineteen centuries of her experience to unfold a method 

 of right living, which deals not with certificates or the physi- 

 cal health of a few, but the carefully inculcated purity of 

 soul and body of every one who craves her ministrations. She 

 knows no "single standard." The law of virtue is judged 

 alike for all. She does not merely ask that the outward 

 health of the adult be certified ; but she makes sure of the stu- 

 dent and the learner from the entrance into manhood and 

 womanhood. She teaches purity of mind and soul, not merely 

 cleanliness of body. 



It is the same in the field of education. The standard for 

 the greatest results must be an education where the soul is 

 taught as well as the body; where the heart and the higher 

 nature of man are as carefully directed as the cravings for 

 material ends are developed. Nor need a single point in the 

 secular side of education be neglected for a moment. These 

 are the standards which are set by an education which will 

 not and cannot leave religious and moral teaching out of its 

 curriculum for an instant. Its standards are not to give the 



