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._