To listen to some of them you'd think as Nature 'adn't made a man--not yet: would never understand the principle of the thing till some of these young chaps 'ad shown 'er 'ow to do it." How to avoid Everything.
"They have now discovered, Mrs.Wilkins," I said, "the germ of old age.
They are going to inoculate us for it in early youth, with the result that the only chance of ever getting rid of our friends will be to give them a motor-car.

And maybe it will not do to trust to that for long.
They will discover that some men's tendency towards getting themselves into trouble is due to some sort of a germ.

The man of the future, Mrs.
Wilkins, will be inoculated against all chance of gas explosions, storms at sea, bad oysters, and thin ice.

Science may eventually discover the germ prompting to ill-assorted marriages, proneness to invest in the wrong stock, uncontrollable desire to recite poetry at evening parties.
Religion, politics, education--all these things are so much wasted energy.

To live happy and good for ever and ever, all we have to do is to hunt out these various germs and wring their necks for them--or whatever the proper treatment may be.