"The measure of the worth of a man today in famine-stricken Russia would be the fitness of the man, not to preach religion, not to write treaties on agriculture or metaphysics, but to feed the people. Next year the worth of a man would be the measure of his ability to teach the peasantry to till and seed the land. The year following it would be measured by his ability, to encourage an interest in government, and the following by his ability to teach the people to run railroads, or mills, or mines, and have a community interest in health, and schools, and religion, or have I gone too fast? Instead of steps a year apart, would we substitute decades, or shall it be centuries? That which separates us from Russia is largely of our own making, close up your public schools and universities and other institutions of learning, wipe out your churches, abolish liberty of thought and expression, and to these, other evils would add themselves so that in another generation the pitiable plight that has befallen Russia could befall. "The preservation of the individual, the preservation of the home, the preservation of society, the maintenance of our race, strong, virile, stumbling, getting up, weak at times, yet strong, these are the challenges to the man and the woman who would carry on for human kind." 