The House We Live In.

We all love a beautiful house, and we are happier when the house we live in is well cared for and sweetly ordered. And just as we ought to look after our dwellings of brick or stone, so we ought to care for the body, which is the house in which the glad life-spirit dwells.

Just as the good housekeeper tells us that the first thing needed is to keep the house clean, so students of nature tell us that the most important thing in regard to the care of the body is to keep it clean; and that, if we would treat it rightly, we must seek knowledge (which is Virtue), and avoid Ignorance (which is Vice).