Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-18
CLIMATE AND FOOD.

The Two Things Which Make Nation,
just What They Are.
In the structure of his teeth and the
organs of digestion, man more closely
resembles his nearer relatives of the
ape and monkey tribe, who are vege
tarians, than he does his more distant
relations, the carnivora. Yet there are
differences of structure which clearly
separate him from the former as well
as the latter class, and which justify us
in ranking him as omnivorous, anC
adaptable in his dietetic habits to vary
ing conditions of climatic and social en-.
for further scientific rebuttal of the ex
IRENE vegetarian view it may be found
in the universal experience of the race
The further back we go in human his
tory, the nearer we approach, appar
emily, not condition Of pure vegetar
ianism, but on the contrary a more gen
eral and universal use of animal food.
Men were hunters and fishermen be.
fore they adopted a pastoral or agricul
tural life, living almost exclusively
upon the products of the chase and the
resources of the sea. In the ancient
kitchen middens'' of Europe and
America, mingled with the shells anc
bones of fish, we find animal and some.
times even human bones on which the
marks of human teeth clearly reveal
the uses to which they were put. And
if we assume before this stage Of human
evolution social or unsocial state,
products of the soil, an assumption
which has no warrant in the accessible
testimony Of archaeology or history, we
must imagine the condition of man
then to have been similar to that of the
Digger indian or certain Of the hill
tribes IF Hindostan, who rank among
the lowest extant specimens of the hui
man race.
Looking at this question from the.
climatic standpoint we find in the
tropical regions performance, but
not an exclusive prevalence ofthe vege-
tartan habit while in the Arctic re-
gions the native races resort almost en-
tirely to the use Of animal food. In
neither of these regions do we find the
human race in its highest perfection.
Civilization received its primary i'm.
pulse and has achieved its most notable
success in the temperate zone, and
among races which are neither exclus-
ively vegetarian nor exclusively car.
nivorous in their habits.
The modern American and European,
as is we'll known, is q descendant Of
one or more branches of the ancient
Aryan or Indo-E European stock. It so
happens that one branch of this stock,
which early separated from its Euro
pean cousins and travelled southwark Ia
people the mountains and plains of In.
dia, through stress of climatic and re-
ligious influences, became as nearly ex-
clusively vegetarian in it's habits as
any large section of the human race
has ever been and has remained so for
centuries. Here, then, is an opportu-
nifty for comparison. asas es O
The effect Of the vegetarian habit,
superadded to climatic conditions, has
been to develop a race notable indeed
.sor some of its intellectual traits, but
inferior in size, lacking in physical
stamina and energy Of character, whose
millions of people easily fell q prey first
to Mohamme dan and afterward to. the
English, whose commercial enterprise
for centuries has proved inferior to that
of the small competing race Of the Par
sees their nearer blood relations land
which has shownsitself lacking in those
essential traits which charao to. iss ON
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