270 THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION 
It ought to become practically impossible for a 
hearty and vigorous boy to fall in love with a help- 
less and anzmic girl. It should be equally impossi- 
ble for a hale and active girl to admire a man who 
was her inferior in either vigor or alertness. The 
modern taste for outdoor life has largely brought 
this to pass among such of our people as have leisure 
enough to indulge in vigorous sport. Among the 
crowded dwellers in the closer sections of the city 
such life has been so nearly impossible that no ideal 
of vigorous manhood or of radiant womanhood has 
had a chance to grow up. With the oncoming of the 
parks and play-grounds, all of this, we may hope, 
will change. Health and vigor will be no less attain- 
able and hence no less adorable in the city than in 
the country. Rich and poor alike will be attracted 
by rosy cheeks and an elastic gait. 
Our aim, however, should not cease with a vigor- 
ous body. We must teach our young men and young 
women the glory of a well disciplined mind. This 
should seem quite as admirable to them as a vigorous 
body. To them, straight thought ought to be as lov- 
able as a firm and supple body. In this matter our 
young people are less exacting. The ordinary con- 
versation of people gathered together for social pur- 
poses is not particularly intellectual, and any attempt 
to make it so at present seems priggish. ith a 
