Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-05
OUR FOOD.
rnE DIGT oF ALAN; ITS ORIGIN AND
 HISTORY
zse Theories If Original Selections of Tooda and Isfiy History eoInrared--- IAe EnIigllt s1nent now in ProEsees
 upon this Eniportnnt Subject.

ot edibles, while the animals take what they can fad without much apparent picking or choosing, and seem satisfied Mans tres 8 gredt variety of tLinCs the animal takes, each kind, its own ap- propriate food Han uses reason to guide him in the choice Of his food, while the animals have unerring instinct 1t first glance the animals seen to have the advantage IAey have little or no trouble in marking experiments They are seldom poisoned They live where their food grows, and so far ls We can judge, they seldom fail to get enough to supply their wants
 Many ignorlas4 history, speculate GU ri6usly enough e. the unfortunate sitUa- h3n pt o1G S.siiesk ance8tofa in thIs respsot. fii4g- s-re pictured s9 finding themselves turned out loose. with no knowledge of vkat was good and what bad; what pala5lble and what naUgeous no physiological chemistry to tell them what E nutrition no one to aQaiyza the berries, herbs, rects branches, and leaves around them. and determine which were best designed fer the human system. Obviously they must depend upon e1- pertinent. The tazte the sight, and the smell would be called on to aid, but none af them would hs iEfdllibla, g with ani- nal food. they could not tell til they he'd tried t what was good ard what evil. For drink they would 5e as likely to lie down on the beach and lap thewayes of the sea as by the brink of the moss -fringed stream Thsir .:sxt sxpe4ineAt woalQ likely be with the milk of animals or of the trees, and vith the juicy fruits
 By comparison, and teaching their children whGt they learned, dletetic knowledge would accumulate: but in the meantime It is probable that many must have suffered il health, and even lost their lives in consequence of these experiments, and if is probable that many thousands have thus died, that we might live" l have here actually given a theory CT the outlines of @ theory, which come man who sets himself Up as gaide and teacher il dietetle5, has spun out, and then he tells US that the history of the raca shows thaf this must bs essentially true
 need hardly say that lis dietetic teachings are g absurd as his theories Observe but mament Human beings thus seeking food must be devoid of all common sense and reason, who would ;19t g=aZs EpOn fruits first of all, instead of last: or that would undertake
 
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 But We cannot better offset this than by giYing Ye.itahle history of what did occur in the earliest days oi our race, ard though the occurrences were tragic enough ws shall see that 1t was not because nan was left so utterly un- guided by our creator CT unsupplad with pcsluTe kI,Qv isqgs of Eis proper food
 + l5 1pl1l lsass-5s4 .A,.l e1oalssselid to nan Behold 1 hdve z5Een you every herb bear ! ing seed which $ upon the face oi all the earth, and every tree in which Is tie fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you 1t shall be for meat This was the general outiine-sesd, grains and fruits. But they wsre not to eat e7erythlRg, even il this line
 Special exception was noted when the first pair was placed in the q6fden of Eden, place 50 well fitted to the wants Of the infant race that only ona hurtful fruit i or pQtsoncuz fruit Eas t. be fcpld, and ! this was especially pointed out Here i was one thing not suitable for food. 1 however attractive # might seem. l can i see no reason why this should not be in 1 terpreted literally and simply If the | k.Hd and wise Creator saw 1t necessary ! to definitely poapt out to the untaaght j and inexperienced couple then food, why 1 should he not warn them Of the immediate | presence Of anything obnoxious or ] poisonous? There is no raason why this 1 command should have been q mere ar bltraTy test It is far mora probable that i the commands of God were reasonable, as 1 they are now, and suited to tine best good of man What the particular article for bidden was, is an item of much less impor-
 tance
 The law furnished two reaching and most important indications First that man was not to eat every thing; he was
 placed in this world not to eat it. but tC ! govern 1t; and second, that through thl appeutes were to come, the great tenta
 ton of the race.
 History has too well proved that
 through indulgence of the capacities have
 come the greatest disasters. the pTe
 y8iiing slns. If one reads either sacred
 or profane history with his eyes open, 1t i
 wonderful 10 see the proofs Of this, not on
 lv do the victims Oi samson, in his las
 out-burst, the overthrow of Babylon; the
 death of Alexander, and many of hi
 cCmpeers; ths decadei1aa Of the Greek anG
 Roman empires, give stupendons eTi
 dence III this directioiI but ln the older
 times the whole tissue of history indicate
 2 prevalence Of ROrnandizing and of tht
 qualification of the ferre and more brut8
 passions which this was fitted to arouse
 Almost every public event was accom- panied by feasting and carousing; war were made not so much for political Q
 even ambitious reasons, as to gratify som
 personal passions of desire CT revenge . And very often wa find that the con querors immediately gave themselves u to feasting and drunkenness, so that re prisals were sudden, and the conqueror were overcome in turn. Not content wit
 the food which had been assigned then
 at first. they killed and dearcured hv.n
 creatures, and when even this was pel
 mitted by an indulgent Father, who woul
 give them every opportunity of probation , They only went on to devise poison
 which literally deprive them of reasol 2 and 1t IS not 2 little significant that thi ! permission and this record of the use ( f wine for self indulgence should have ot :, cured in connection Che of the greata. :, apparent difficulties in the. training ( Z z the children of Israel for . new epocl . which should introduce better things, WE ' to weaa them of their habits of self-il diligence. When they found themselvC P restricted in their diet in the wilderness i their souls longed for the flesh pots . Egypt and other delicacies to which the : had been accustomed in that fertile Ian, . and only that they had been driven ol b with a high hand they would probabl 's have returned to slavery, in spite of u ,s noble leader who had delivered ther # And when for a few days they lost
 him, they prepared Q great feast and i
 dulged to such an extent of grossness an
 idolatry two things then-iptimlte
 eonnected) that God H his anger woul
 have cut them off and made Moses nation that should serve him with pur t hearts and greater submission For 1t years he disciplined their capacities in u a wilderness. and as religious restriction to and eeremonials were the only direction to which they would give heed, by pleal in of code of "clean and unelean, the h ravenous and all-deavouring self i 70 dulgence was restrained and the princip j0 first promulgated in Paradise was Ia e. down with new variations They unde le stood fully that they were not to c n everything; that salf-denial and restrai a upon their appetites ware legitimate aiJ