The man who lives a life of mere ease, who never goes out into the rough world and faces its difficulties, who never has to strive with his fellows for the mastery, who never has to wrestle with the great problems of life, is not a man at all. The willfully idle man, like the willfully barren woman, has no place in a sane, healthy, and vigorous community. Moreover, the gross and hideous selfishness for which each stands defeats even its own miserable aims. Exactly as infinitely the happiest woman is she who has borne and brought up many healthy children, so the happiest man is he who has toiled hard and successfully in his life work. As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation.