Dr. Knapp’s true goal was “to create a better people…. High-minded,
stalwart, courageous, and brave. You are beginning at the bottom to
influence the masses of mankind, and ultimately those masses always control
the destiny of a country. If you allow their practices to sink lower and
lower the country must ultimately drop to a lower level in moral, political,
and religious tone, and we go down to degradation and infamy as a nation;
but if we begin at the bottom and plant human action upon the rock of high
principles, with right cultivation of the soil, right living for the common
people, and comforts everywhere … the people will lend their support and all
civilization will arise higher and higher, and we shall become a beacon
light to all the nations of the world.”
