.

_Dr. M. H. Rosenau, Harvard Medical School._

The next generation of parents is being made strong or weak
in home and school today by an environment furnished by
parents and teachers. These latter cannot be too well
instructed in physiology, hygiene, and biology.

_Prof. John Tyler, The Responsibility of the Medical Profession
for Public Education in Hygiene._

The new view is a social view, which seeks in all movements,
whether of research or of remedial action, for the common
welfare.

_Edward Devine, Social Forces._

Democracy means that the best of all life is for all, and
that if there are many incapable of entering into it, then
they must be helped to become capable.

_Ralph Barton Perry, The Moral Economy._

If the child is not only in theory but in practice
recognized as the main interest in society, the family and
society will more and more assist the mother in his nurture.

_W. I. Thomas, Women and Their Occupations._

Health administration cannot rise far above the hygienic
standards of those who provide the means for administering
sanitary law. The tax-paying public must believe in the
economy, utility, and necessity of efficient health
administration.

_Wm. H. Allen, Civics and Health._

The connection between poverty and ill health is so direct,
so immediate, and so important that the moment any
individual or society turns its attention to the causes of
poverty, that moment it finds itself in the thick of the
public health movement.

_Homer Folks, Journal Public Hygiene, November, 1909._

CHAPTER IV

FAITH AND HOPE

Progress is a series of zigzags: now the individual goes ahead of the
community; now the community outstrips the individual.

The community cannot rise much above the level of the individual home,
and the home rises only by the pull of the community regulations, or
by the initiative of a few especially farsighted individuals.

The steps need to be carefully measured, for if the family begins to
rely on the State for the backbone it should have, it will not stay
up, and its fall will be lower than the stage it rose from. "When man
reverts, he goes not to Nature, but to death."

The example set by the city in maintaining clean streets and well-kept
parks reacts upon the home yards. The insistence