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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 78

Fresh Air

page 86

Fresh Air.

To develop indoors, under glass, a race of men and women of the type that I believe is coming out of all this marvellous mingling of races in the United States is immeasurably absurd. There must be sunlight, but even more is needed, fresh, pure air. The injury wrought to-day to the race by keeping too young children indoors at school is beyond the power of anyone to estimate. The air they breathe even under the best sanitary regulations is far too impure for their lungs. Often it is positively poisonous—a slow poison which never makes itself fully manifest until the child is a wreck. . . .