of this book to arouse the thinking portion of the
community to the opportunity of the present moment for inculcating
such standards of living as shall tend to the increase of health and
happiness.

To the women of America has come an opportunity to put their
education, their power of detailed work, and any initiative they may
possess at the service of the State.

Faith, Hope, and Courage may be taken as the three potent watchwords
of the New Crusade. There is a real contagion of ideas as well as of
disease germs.

CHAPTER II

_Individual effort is needed to improve individual
conditions. Home and habits of living. Good habits pay in
economy of time and force._

The hope is springing up in some minds that the entire
problem of human regeneration will be much simplified when
men shall have learned more fully the nature of their own
lives, the nature of the physical world that environs them,
and the interaction between this physical world and the
spirit of man which is set to subdue it.

_Prof. George E. Dawson, The Control of Life through Environment._

We create the evil as well as the good. Nature is
impersonal. To an increasing degree _man_ determines.

_Carl Kelsey._

The only certain remedy for any disease is man's own vital
power.

Today only an exceptional man, almost a genius, learns to
modify his habits and his life to his environment and to
triumph over his surroundings, his appetites, and the absurd
dictates of fashion.

_Richard Cole Newton, M.D., How Shall the Destructive Tendencies
of Modern Life Be Met and Overcome?_

We have certain inherent capacities as to bodily strength,
length of life, etc., but it lies largely with ourselves to
adopt a mode of life which may make an actual difference in
height, weight, and physical strength and intellectual
capacity.

_E. H. Richards, Sanitation in Daily Life._

There are two recognized ways of improving the quality of
human beings: one by giving them a better heredity--starting
them in life with a stronger heart, better digestion,
steadier nerves; the other by so combining the factors of
daily life that even a weak heart may grow strong, a poor
digestion may become good, and frayed nerves gain
steadiness.

_E. H. Richards, The Art of Right Living._

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