to secure efficiency and the
greatest happiness for himself and for the community.

Right living conditions comprise pure food and a safe water supply, a
clean and disease-free atmosphere in which to live and work, proper
shelter, and the adjustment of work, rest, and amusement. The
attainment of these conditions calls for hearty cooperation between
individual and community--effort on the part of the individual because
the individual makes personality a power; effort on the part of the
community because the strength of combined endeavor is required to
meet all great problems.

EUTHENICS

BETTER ENVIRONMENT FOR THE HUMAN RACE

CONTENTS

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I. The opportunity for betterment is real and practical,
not merely academic 3

II. Individual effort is needed to improve individual
conditions. Home and habits of living, eating, etc.
Good habits pay in economy of time and force 15

III. Community effort is needed to make better conditions
for all, in streets and public places, for water and
milk supply, hospitals, markets, housing problems, etc.
Restraint for sake of neighbors 39

IV. Interchangeableness of these two forms of progressive
effort. First one, then the other ahead 59

V. The child to be "raised" as he should be. Restraint for his
good. Teaching good habits the chief duty of the family 73

VI. The child to be educated in the light of sanitary science.
Office of the school. Domestic science for girls. Applied
science. The duty of the higher education. Research needed 91

VII. Stimulative education for adults. Books, newspapers,
lectures, working models, museums, exhibits, moving pictures 117

VIII. Both child and adult to be protected from their own
ignorance. Educative value of law and of fines for
disobedience. Compulsory sanitation by municipal, state,
and federal regulations. Instructive inspection 131

IX. There is responsibility as well as opportunity. The
housewife an important factor and an economic force in
improving the national health and increasing the national
wealth 143

CHAPTER I

_The opportunity for betterment is real a