As a rule, the conclusion is a just one.
High ideals and strong, clean, wholesome lives and work are incompatible with low standards of personal cleanliness.

A young man who neglects his bath will neglect his mind; he will quickly deteriorate in every way.

A young woman who ceases to care for her appearance in minutest detail will soon cease to please.

She will fall little by little until she degenerates into an ambitionless slattern.
It is not to be wondered at that the Talmud places cleanliness next to godliness.

I should place it nearer still, for I believe that absolute cleanliness _is_ godliness.