Chapter IV

_Interchangeableness of these two forms of progressive
effort. First one, then the other ahead._

Preventive medicine is the watchword of the hour, and
enlistment in the cause can come only through education....

He who understands the dangers is thrice armed, and is
trained and entitled to enlist in the home guard to protect
the health of his household and neighbors.

_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._