The times., 1899-03-23
DR.. KELLOGG Says THE
Race IS DETERIORbTING
Present Generation Not What
Their Ancestors We're.
Careless Living Assigned as One of
the Causes.
The Speaker Sees Little Hope for a
Healthy and Prosperous PeO-
pie in the Future.

Dr. J. H. Kellogg. of Battle Creek,
Mich. delivered an address last night at
the First Baptist Church on the subject
Are We Dying Race?" He said, in part:
Il come before you with very unpopu-
lar subject tonight, for l am to try 10
convince you that our race, instead of
climbing to greater and greater heights
of vigor and activity and attaining to
greater prospects of long and useful life,
is dying. Now that certainly is not a very
cheering proposition. | am not a pessi-
mist, and l do not think our race needs
to die, that its sun should set in oblivion,
but at the rate we are going down this
is bound to be the case and what we are
seeking for and what we should seek for
is some method by which this march of
downward progress may be stayed.
What evidence have we that the race
is dying? A little time ago l was talking
to some fifteen hundred young men in one
of our Western colleges, and l asked them
how many of them thought that they were
as strong or stronger than their fathers,
and but fifteen held up their hands. A lit
tie later, in speaking to an audience of
some five hundred young ladies in the
same place, l asked them how
do as hard work as their mothers,
and but three dared to raise their hands.
and | saw one of them looking timidly over
her shoulder to see that her mother was
not looking. 1t is really fact that the
present generation Of young men and wom-
en- are inferior to their fathers and mo-
theirs. You can see this as you meet them
ON the street or as you watch them as
| they pick out their life pursuits How
many of these young men are as ready and
able 10 go out as pioneers as were the
young men of thirty or fifty years ago?
Nowadays il man wants to select farm
be chooses one where he can put his plow
right in and raise crop the very next
year, but he is not anxious to go in and
grub out twenty-acre field of pine
stumps. The young men are not lazy but
they feel their physical inability to con-
| tinue the work that their forefathers have
done before them, and they come to the
city to find some easier work in the store
or Office. But this is mistake for there
they get more headaches and backaches
than they ever would on the farm And
at the same time the city is extending to
| the country, and the city fashions are be-
ing adopted in the country and the evils
thereof are going right along, too and the
| country is becoming deteriorated. just as
the city is to great extent.
Another evidence that the race is de-
| teriorating is the fact that the number of
degenerates, the insane, the imbecile, the
lunatics are increasing. There are three
| times as many insane to the million peo-
pie today as fifty years ago. Fifty years
ago there were six hundred insane to the
million, and today there are three times
as many-there are eighteen hundred. II
| the race keeps degeneratng at this rate
| in 265 years. as / have figured il UP, our
whole population will be either idiots, lu-
natics, or imbeciles.
The whole country is filled with de-
| generates. and at this rate, as l have said.
| it is but a question of time when the
whole race will be degenerated II some
thing does not check their downward ca
reer. You see pale. hollow-eyed people
| in our Offices in our schools, and in our
homes. These are the kind of people of
| whom Shakespeare said: 'Cassius has
lean and hungry look Such men are
dangerous. And they are dangerous. and
they are in danger, too. Notice that little
| BOY with the pale pinched face. He is
! being literally starved. Not because his
mother does not give him enough to eat,
for it is not what. we eat. but what We
| digest that gives us life. It is not th.,
amount OF food that We swallow but the
amount we assimilate that gives us en-
| ergy.
Zone reason for this is that people are
born with weak stomaehs and weak or
| gans, as the results of the habits of their
parents and ancestors
When the child goes to school the
| mother is very particular to ascertain
| just the standing of every professor with
| whom her daughter is to come in contact
| but she has never been known to try TO
| get acquainted with the cook yet the girl
is being constructed by the cook and the
| professors are only modelling the clay
1 hi oh rhA anlr
| that girl is being made of. and If it is a
diet of Holsters and pate de fol gras and
the like, that is the kind of girl she is
| going to be.
IF you build a house of granite it will
| be firm, solid structure, but it, like the
Mexican adobe huts. you build it of mud
bricks dried in the sun it may melt down
in the flood. as did a city through which
/ passed in Mexico
How many men would feed their
horses on such diet as they eat them
| selves? A New York gentleman mad
| four fine sons. and four splendid puppies,
and 1t was noticed that he gave his per-
sonal attention to the puppies. supervising
and often preparing their food, while his
boys were turned over to the sole atten-
| tion of the tutor. Upon being asked the
reason. he replied. Why, those dogs have
a pedigreei'
| Many people are today habitually in
| toxicated on tea just as others are on
| whisky or beer, and In Paris and New
| York the society ladies are getting as
| fascinated with the tea cigarette as the
men are with the tobacco cigarette and
with the same results attending its use
| There is more poison in a single cup of
strong. green tea than in a glass OF beer,
and a person cannot drink as many glasses
of strong tea as OF ordinary beer.
People are eating anything that they
can get that will give them new tickle
pepper, peppersauce, mustard. etc. but
| the tingling sensation which Is aroused by
| the use of these condiments is not the de-
| mand of the stomach for food, but the
| sensation of irritation, and unless the
| stomach calls for food it should not be
! taken. for it is not needed. People do not
seem to understand that whatever will
cause blister or irritation on the outside
will cause the same on the inside.
at is said of cheese, 1t is mighty elf,
dlgesting all things but itself This is
| an error, for it does not digest anything,
germs.
God gave Adam diet of fruits. grains.
and nuts. and not a word of meats was
uttered. After the flood he was permitted
/ to eat all living things, and he was per-
| mitted to use his judgment in the selection
| of foods but he was not commanded to
| eat them. and leaving 1t to his discretion
as to what was best and most wholesome
| for him to use.
"It is an interesting fact that a woman
| has more liver and less heart than man
| Ia better heart, of coursel. She has a
smaller heart than man. for the same
muscles are smaller. and 1t does not need
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