New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


tho human race maintaining that this species is unique
that all men OF the species, and that hence
they should regard each other brothers, whatever
their color, their language, their country. Al nrs'
this species occupied very limited portion OF ne sooo
spread It's surface at earlier epoch tan was
formerly imagined As he everywhere iound 'ou"J'
lie must have Travelled in all directions from tne ''
of creation and peoped the earth py miSratio" mu0"
rs the Europeans do at the present time' Ane a'''
ment of civilization is a gradual process The race
passes through three distinct kinds OF society peioo
reaching the present condition, when are '
follows:
The lowest degree OF human association Is people that
hunt ana fish, and TINS ,Ie ~ hunters eaLnot be
numerous because 1t must live on the game II Kills
POPULATION Besides the hunters chances are for the
day he is never sure of living for tomorrow inns
inteisence toward more elevated subjects. Hunters
besides have necessarily to watch their hunting
is The image Of war Wars easily arise between neigh
boring populations placed In identical CONDITIONS. inese
wars are without mercy each prisoner Is one more
mouth to feed; xii him. then. Hence, hunng.triDes
almost inevitably courageous sometimes hefoc' pu'
As soon as man domesticates certain animals-cattle
sheep, namas-as soon as he becomes pastoral, MS
tomorrow is assured He can at once pegn 10 occupy
himself with something besides his food; ana we see
pastoral people need spaces their animals these
promptly exhaust the heritage OF canton HeST hicb
supply milk and flesh. the nourishment OF tue master
And so pastoral population cannot eXs har mgratons
the hores meet aud dispute by force of arms for the
av be nv the oonqaercr and their food VIII
lot be great sacrifice They are spared ana siaVe!
Society takes its third form when man finds that
the vegetable kingdom furnishes more abundant ana
reliable food than That obtained from ne
becomes agriculturist Besides. agriculture gives
HIM leisure. His manners soften War; when II breaks
ont becomes less cruel PRISONERS employed to work In
the field render services more ana more consuera
material necessities, the intelligence OF inc
master awakens aud enarges A true CIVILIZATION
may arise aud grow among agrieulturists
Centuries ago Europeans attained social state per
hitting the degree OF civilization OF which we are so
often, under the influence OF our actual superiority
we disdan the people who are behind whether IN the
pastoral in the state OF hunters. We proclaim
them incapable OF reaching our level
This opinion nowhere justified. Forget not that
we have passed by the same halting-paces. Forget
not, above all, that many civilizations have pre-
oeded Two thousand years before our era tine
Chinese raised monuments that still excite the admira
uOn OF Travellers cultivated the mulberry, raised the
sk-worm and possessed notions of astronomy. Egypt
Ian civilization is still ancient. You proof Of
tins the Universal Exposition In the temple raised
under the direction OF ~ Aariette you must have ad
mired among other things that magnificent statue OF
true savages covered with the skins of beasts, and
snng ourselves paints and attOOng like those OF the
backward races of own day. The effect OF tins
on the other render indulgent TO people VINO are
yet at the point which We have escaped
The relation OF food 10 the Development OF man Is
treated in able and suggestive paper translated nom
the German of Ule by j. Fitzgerald. The mlin question
is thus tersely stated
OF all the influences which determine the life OF the
ndvd9a anu on wS1 ms %e an p T1 me ghtiet
Every has for himself experienced how not only The
strength OF his muscles but also the course OF his
thought and his whole mental Tone is affected by the
his food. And shall not that hold good Tor
sum of mankind be less affected in their physi-
cal and mental development by the food they take than
seems be the decision OF history Philosophers even
the great thinker OF KOnGsberg himself have not "a
uornf IN a bDuT
pies Of different oodsuppleS The world heard at hrst
with astcnlshment tue saying OF a famous scientific
man. that could live air and water alone, such
notions master and servant, prince and subject
freDd foe hate and love virtue and vice right and
wrong, &c, would have existence, and political com
munilies. social family life. human intercourse
word, whatever makes man what he is-depend en-
trely the fact that man possesses stomach and is
subject TO law of Nature which compes him daily 10
taAe a certain amount of food"
Inie recognized in historical research, than
the selection of articles OF food is not only i'm
but that it is weighty, word-stirrlng question for
sS and Of n eHaon M We ' w H' thsfeOf
endeavor 10 look closely into 1t. and study the
mode in which this influence is eXerted.
Ii nations are flourish. they than individuals
need wholesome. strong food. the only question Is,
WSSleso SON Foods have been cassed in different
groups according 10 the influence they have ON the
body, in virtue OF their essential constituents and
though this classification, like every artificial classified
ton make in Nature, Is only approximately correct,
sti II gives us some GROUND to stand on BoodfoI1ers
alhuInnates, are those abumnous materials which
into the composition OF the muscles bones snews,
ana gaments which the exercise OF force specially
depends The heatproducers respiratory foods are
those Ich in carbon these specially support,
with the aid OF Inspired oxygen, the process of com
busOu for the purposes OF the organism.
Finally, there Is third group Of nutritious substances
the Dutritve salts, which of inorganic nature
aud which, after combustion OF the food, remain in the
shape ~ SSi;
All these food materials are essential. since with
them the organism is built mp. Lie IS an M
food must make good the loss the organism
sucsr, instant. Even tvsr substances which
Maintained In the living body only in small qnanti.cs
imporant gaus. Such suQtahces are common salt,
potash, lme magnesia, pho1phorc acid and above all
their vitality But of these groups is, by ITSELF
sufficient Tor nutrition; they must an lie eoulDlneu:
producers aud nurltive salts are not
separately foods but Oniy factors OF FOOD each as ndls-
pesaoo Tor the vital processes as ar ana water put
each incapable by itself OF supporting HE one cannot
hive on albumen alone fat alone without ime-phos-
pirate no bone wond De iofmoa 40 ,h ISw @
muscular tissue would be formed, though we were TO
orce onrselves with sugar aud salt finally. without
lat no brain. But properly enough give the name
OF foods to meat milk, and bread, for Ill them ali the
thee conditions are present
The secret of diet adapted to the human constitution
Is to be found in a due variety
We must restrict ourselves to a few articles OF
food but have great variety Of foods 70 select
must not partake OF the same are DAY after
day but must vary much as possible. Only with
IA varied alternating dietary eau We DC sure tndt
what Is lacking foodstuh will be supplied 10 an
other and that what fail TO get to-day shall have
Tomorrow What is commonly regarded as simply the
result OF spct palate, VIZ the repusnanee excited ny
the STEADY OF the same DISH Is an uprising VI
the organism itself against i0od whlch Goes NOT meet
Is requirements Or rather the consequence OF ue-
ficency already established.
Here we have an Important rule for determining a
wholesome The foods we must contain the In
our food must be Mixed varied, ana alternating.
good also for nations. food-stus of energetic
population TO the standard only when they are
IuutfarOusy nded, and when there Is due proper
tou substances belonging TO the three groups men