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The nation that takes the best care of the 

 birth of its children, that encourages the kinds 

 of birth which will bring into the world the 

 greatest amount of happiness and the least 

 amount of suffering, and the nation that brings 

 to the care of children after birth all the advan- 

 tages of education in its broadest sense, is 

 destined to survive and lead the world in the 

 progress of the future. 



Let us pray that this may be our American 

 nation. 



Henby Fairfield Osbobn. 



