World-Power and Evolution

Abstract

EVOLUTIONbusiness failures, the labor troubles, the bitter heart-burnings, and the lapses into sin which occur because people's nerves are unstrung.Surprising as it may seem, we shall find that financial depression in the United States is apparently a regular consequence of widespread ill health.The lamentable and most ominous failure of the more competent parts of the community to reproduce themselves and maintain their proportion among the general population is due in part at least to the weakened physique which results from a life of ease and luxury, especially among women.In a thousand other ways health is equally vital to the general welfare.Watch the laborers loafing on their job in the street.If those men had been born with the minds and bodies that they ought to have, and if they were blessed with the perfect health that they ought to enjoy, would they be content witK such dilatory work even though they are employed by the city?Would you, with your quick mind -if you were in perfect health -^be willing to work so slowly?Consider for a moment the actual figures as to health in the United States.In his book on "The Hygiene of the School Child" Terman says that of the 20,000,000 children enrolled in the schools of the United States about 14,000,000 are handicapped INDEX

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