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Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.

12	    The daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural
  	nor necessary than would be the process of taking a fish
  	out of water every day and covering it with dirt	                     Ablutions for
15	in order to make it thrive more vigorously in its	                     cleanliness 
  	own element. "Cleanliness is next to godliness," but
  	washing should be only for the purpose of keeping the
18	body clean, and this can be effected without scrubbing the
  	whole surface daily. Water is not the natural habitat of
  	humanity. I insist on bodily cleanliness within and with-
21	out. I am not patient with a speck of dirt; but in caring
  	for an infant one need not wash his little body all over each
  	day in order to keep it sweet as the new-blown flower.