That is a matter which, more than any other, concerns the community as a whole, and the community cannot afford to be slack in asserting its authority over it.

The State needs healthy men and women, and by any negligence in attending to this need it inflicts serious charges of all sorts upon itself, and at the same time dangerously impairs its efficiency in the world.

Nations have begun to recognize the desirability of education, but they have scarcely yet begun to realize that the nationalization of health is even more important than the nationalization of education.

If it were necessary to choose between the task of getting children educated and the task of getting them well-born and healthy it would be better to abandon education.

There have been many great peoples who never dreamed of national systems of education; there has been no great people without the art of producing healthy and vigorous children.
This matter becomes of peculiar importance in great industrial states like England, the United States, and Germany, because in such states a tacit conspiracy tends to grow up to subordinate national ends to individual ends, and practically to work for the deterioration of the race.