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to do. Here quality outranks bigness and a small, enduring 

 minority with time on its side will win in the end; especially 

 if the minority is an apostolic succession of great infectious 

 souls. Nature also is on the side of those fittest, and will 

 not be denied. 



Nature obviously urges us to be healthy, fully-developed, 

 symmetrical, strong and beautiful in mind and body. A wise 

 old classical teacher used to explain with enthusiasm to suc- 

 cessive classes of young barbarians that in Hebrew, Greek 

 and Latin, salvation meant restoration to, and maintenance of, 

 perfect health; that health, haleness, wholeness and holiness 

 are all akin in root and synonymous. Perhaps he was quite 

 right. It looks so. Salvete et valete. 



