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[November, 
Longevity , 
All the young are taught to swim, to row, to ride, to skate, 
to walk with ease and stateliness, to climb, to play at invi- 
gorating games, to dance, to speak in public, and to become 
efficient in the gymnasium. The daily ablution in the bath, 
the daily exercises of muscle and limb, are made as dis- 
tinctive necessities as the taking of meals ; and, withal, the 
dress in which the body of both sexes is clothed is made so 
loose and obedient to every movement that no deformity of 
body from dress is possible. 
With regard to the health of the Saluts they have mas- 
tered the pestilential diseases. An epidemic from pollution 
of air, of water, of food, is with them impossible. The 
hereditary tendencies to disease are either lost altogether or 
are so nearly eradicated as to be practically removed. The 
diseases incident to poverty are stamped out by the removal 
of their cause. The diseases incident to intemperance and 
luxury are stamped out by the removal of their causes. 
The diseases incident to occupation are stamped out by the 
careful and easy expunging of everything that is injurious 
in occupations. The diseases incident to worry are stamped 
out by the abolition of maddening, exhausting, and useless 
strifes and ambitions. In a word, this people contends 
only with the natural elements, — the heat of the sun, the 
flash of the lightning, the changes of atmosphere, — from 
the fatal effeCt of which they rarely suffer; and with the 
one destroying inevitable power, the gravitation of the 
earth, which brings old age and death. 
Thus, with the fewest accidental exceptions, the men and 
women attain the sacred age. Their death-rate is normal 
and constant, at eight in the thousand per year, and death 
itself — painless, final sleep — is hardly more than departure 
to rest when the day of work is done. 
Referring to the simple means by which these results were 
achieved, Dr. Richardson says these settlers had become 
indoctrinated in their own land with the elementary truths 
relating to public health. They had learned the lesson of 
physiology ; they had acquired a certain knowledge of what 
were and what were not healthy places. They had learned 
the history of the diseases produced by uncleanliness, had 
become practised in the useful and innocuous distribution 
of sewage, and had seen the dangers that arise from pitching 
dwellings in damp localities, and in building dwellings with 
materials that absorb and hold water. In accord in spirit, 
with the best information on these points, they carried out 
the spirit to the letter in their practice, and so began on a 
new and sound foundation. Ignoring all thought of false 
