Man’s habits as to eating, drinking, dressing, bathing, and especially as to defecating, are clues to his growth in refinement. But we must beware of judging a person by one or two good or bad habits; he should be estimated by the sum of his habits and their peculiar combination. Refined habits are not all of them acquired at once; they develop slowly, one after another, when opportunities are favorable, especially the habits as to bathing and defecating. Opportunities for these latter are wofully lacking at present--the cause and consequences of which lack are pointed out in the last chapter. A child will derive far more good from a ready access to bath-tub and water-closet than from a lifelong attendance at Sunday-school and church with the temple of the human soul permanently unclean. Only one that has learned to respect and care for the abode of the soul--the body--is worthy of being classed among the refined. It is truly deplorable that the great majority of the human race are creatures of the moment or the hour, tolerators of abnormal functioning, slow suicides of vital capacities. Claims of the permanent are constantly ignored; most of us are blind to the joy involved in the harmonious functioning of all the organs--a functioning that always ensues upon hygienic care. Our organs will for a time bear neglect or unhygienic conditions without protesting their annoyance. Many persons never use hot water or soap; others find one bath, in river or sea, quite sufficient for the year; others, again, feel the need of a bath once or even twice a month, or even once a week. But there are very few of us that seem to require a bath daily. Many, alas! have grown accustomed to a bathless existence.