Year: 1861

such arc comparatively few. An old bache
lor, voluntarily single, always betrays a
nature badly fed in one Of its important de
partments. So, too, those who marry buI
who are not blest with children, betray thC
lack of food. Many Of these hunger through
life for children to feed their affections
and take on pecniarties that betray the
fact that something is wrong with them
Some adopt children in order TO supply a
want which seems imperative, and others
take pets Of different kinds to their bosoms,
ranging through the scale from birds to
bulldogs. 1t is q familiar trick of starved
faculties and affections to take on morbid
appetite, and feed themselves on the strang.
est of supplies.


So if a man would live full and gener.
Gus life, he must supply it with full and
generous diet. So far as bis ability will 60,
ne should make his home the embodiment
oil his best taste. There should be abund
ant meaning in its architecture. There
should be pictures upon its walls, and books
upon his shelves and tables. All the do
nestle and social affections should be abun.
dainty fed there. His table sbould he a
gathering place for friends. Music shonld
minister to him. lie should bring himself
into contact with the great and wise and
good, who have embalmed their lives in the
varied forms OF art. The facts that live in
the earth under bis feet, the beauty TINT
spreads itself around him, and ali those
truths which appeal to his religious nature.
are food which should minister 10 his life
An rreligous man-no matter what his
genius may be--is always a starveling,
An unsOcial man can by no possibility lead
true life. A mans nature should be
thrown wide open at every point, TO drink
in the nouriShment that comes from the
healthy sources of supply /; and thus only
make his life become aUundantly rich and
beautiful. | repeat the proposition that |
started with : we cannot get more out OF
human life than We put into it.


There is another aspect of this subject
that | have barely space TO allude to. The
illustration with which this article opens.
touching the effects of hay and grain re-
spectively upon the life of the horse, sug.
gests that the food with which our bodies
are nourlshed may have an important bear
Ing upon our mental and moral life. or
this have no doubt. Coarse food made OF
material but feebIy vitalized, makes coarse
men and women. Muscular tissues not form
cd from choice material, brains built of poor
stuff, nervous fbers to which the finest and
most delicate food has not ministcred, ard
not the instruments of the highest grade o
mental life. The dispensalon of sawdust
is passed away. II is pretty well understood
that the most cOmplicat ed, the nobleSt,
and the finest creature in the world requires
the best food the world can produce and
that he requires it in great variety. If IA
man leads simply an animal life-eating
working and, sleeping-let him feed as AMI
mails do butif he lives life above animals
as social and religious being, then let him
take food that gives pleasure to his palate,
and pluck and power to all the Instruments
OF his mind Hay may answer very well
for mind that moves at the rate OF only
three miles an hour but a mile was never
yet made "inSide of 2:40" without grain.