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to man, of those essential phenomena, with which man's 

 life is so connected, and on which he must rely for his 

 existence. This is especially so in anatomy, chemistry, 

 physiology and medicine, and just as essentially so, in 

 morals. 



The neglect of society to avail itself of sanitary 

 measures is the highest immorality. It seems then, that 

 the highest code of ethics will be based on this necessity 

 of maintaining a rational correspondence with physical 

 environment, as one phase of its composition. Education 

 should be directed to that end. Perfection may never 

 come; but we can make an immense advance beyond 

 our present ignorance of this great truth. This phase 

 of a code is not included in the existing code. It does 

 not say as an eleventh commandment, "He who remains 

 ignorant of the evident laws of nature is on the road to 

 an early death. " It is apparent that such is the natural 

 law, because men are dying daily on account of prevent- 

 able conditions. They are being overwhelmed by earth- 

 quakes, tide waters, floods, and epidemics, because they 

 are not in intellectual correspondence with the physical 

 forces producing these things. Therefore an important 

 commandment of the code should be "Strive to master 

 the laws of physics." 



MAN, A NATURAL PRODUCT. When man shall fully 

 understand the principle of evolution, he then only, 

 will begin to comprehend that he is not a stranger to his 

 environment. As soon as he shall become convinced, that 

 he is not a manufactured article, set down from an un- 

 known region, into a strange country, for a short stay 

 only ; but that his organism is evolved out of his habitat ; 

 that every apparent thing organic, or inorganic, is akin 

 to him, composed of the same material, shaped by the 

 same force, and governed by the same laws, he will then 



