Excerpt from The Art of Right Living
Besides this appalling slaughter, three thousand to five thousand deaths annually in each large city, we have to consider what Mr. Wells aptly calls the partial death rate, "that dwarfing and limiting of an innumerable host of children who do, in an underfed and meager sort of way, survive." No other living thing is so weighted with the load of mere living as is the human being.
The loss in working power to the state is indicated by the undersize of the adults who have to suffer a handicap loss of from fifteen to twenty pounds in weight and three inches in height due to poor nutrition and unsanitary surroundings.
America is said to worship efficiency, but this worship has not included the human being, that self-developed machine whose "duty" is a thousand times more valuable than that of any man-made machine.
In these pages we shall consider the factors which go to make up the efficient human individual, and treat these factors also with reference to their development in school life, for it is to the formation of right habits in the child that we must look for improvement.
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