Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-04-13
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A"SSAfSS'' AN~ 1"SSaoh' o'AAA SNSSSf~f~'0
of much investigation, is very interest
ing one to theologians as well as physio-
ogists. 1t is a we'll known fact" says
professor M. that changes of food have
transformed the wild cat into the 6reside [
companion from carniverous animal
with short intestines, it has, by gradual! |
becoming accustomed to other food, becomb
transformed into another being, enabled
by long intestinal canal, to digest veg
etable food, which. in its natural state, i
never touches. Food therefore, makes the
most rapacious and per6dious animal in
the world an inmate with man, agreeing
with children, and rarely, except to a
close observer, revealing its former guile
full character. Are we, then, to wonder
that tribes of men become ardent, phleg-
matte, strong or feeble, courageous or cow
ardly, thoughtful or uninteligent, accord
ing to the different kinds of ailments they
take 2" aa.
DR.. Ray, in his work on Mental Hy-
giene," says" The efficiency of the
mental powers is determined in high
degree by the hygieneic condition of the
bodily organs, especially the brain )" and
again, Whatever improves the physical
qualities of the brain, also improves, in
some way or other, the qualities of the
mimi "If," as Professor Maleschott
says, food is transformed into blood,
blood into nerve and muscle, bone and
brain, must not the ardor Of the heart,
the strength of the muscles, the frmncss
and activity of the brain, be dependent
upon the constituents of the food ?" What,
in view of these facts, can we think of
those people who eat the flesh of animals
for food--hogs, cows, and sheep who
drink tea, coffee, wine, and all kinds of
! stimulating and Intoxicating liquors; who
smoke and chew vast quantities of tobac-
co snd opium; who indulge in highly
concentrated food who depart 50 far from
. that which is natural that the artificial
unnatural, and, therefore, sinful, comes to
, be the rule of life instead Of the excep
, ton? In these wrongful methods ant
, habits Of living we find the principal
: causes for all our chronic invalidism, our
everyday sicknesses and premature deaths;
, for our bald headed, toothless, dried up
| sallow men and women, in place of straw
berry health and apple checked beauty;
for our vast increase Of crime, intempeI
!, ance. immortality, and rascality Of every
e species; for onr social and domestic uni
a happiness, our loss Of integrity of charae-
: ter, our blindness 10 the truth, and our
: weakness to do that which we knoaU to be
!, right
!, In his Letters to the Joneses" Dr.
] Holland says -" The curse Of Eden
: seems to have been the subsection of the
v soul to the service of the body. When |
! reflect upon the relative dignity and i'm
Y portance of the soul and the body-the
f Immortality of the one and the mortality
f of the other, the heavenly alliances Of
Q the one and the earthly alliances Of the
e other. the God.like capacities Of the one
}, and the brutal apetites of tie other--it
b astonishes me to realize that the souls
It work in this world is, in the majority Of
h cases. simply that of procuring food and
/ raiment and shelter for the body. 1t as.
l. tonishes me to realize that. under every
form Of civilization, tie body IS The soul.
s tyrant, and leads 1t By the nose !">
it Is it not time the intelligent people Of
this nation had reversed the present order
/ Of things, putting the body in subjectior
. to the soA. giving mind control ovel
!, matter, the spiritual and intellectual pow
: er over the animal and passionate
le "Good heavens, madam what and wht
! are you? Are you all body and no soul
y Is it decent business for decent ssul tt
IL be constantly engaged d-absorbingly oc
70 cupied-in ori,amenting and showing off
:. in pampering the appetites and passions
'"e " qualification of personal vanity or anima
ol desires, the body it inhabits?"
70 We look back to the early days whel
men had more use for their muscles thai
,, they had for their minds-that time ha
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