So long as the bare struggle for continuance of physical existence absorbs all their energies, they cannot be civilized.

The consideration of the greater intrinsic worth of the moral life than the merely physical life, must not be allowed to mislead us.
That which has the precedence in value has not the precedence in time.
We must begin with the lower life before we can ascend to the higher.

As in the individual the _corpus sanum_ is rightly an object of earlier solicitude in education than the _mens sana_, though the latter may be of higher importance; so with the progress of a class.

We cannot go to the lowest of our slum population and teach them to be clean, thrifty, industrious, steady, moral, intellectual, and religious, until we have first taught them how to secure for themselves the industrial conditions of healthy physical life.

Our poorest classes have neither the time, the energy, or the desire to be clean, thrifty, intellectual, moral, or religious.