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I write now to prefervc them againft that bad 

 opinion of wheats which 4n ingenious and eloquent 

 philofophcr (who, from fome few particular objec- 

 tions, has drawn a falfc general conclufion) might 

 incline them- to adopt. 



It appears to me as neccflary that man (houki 

 have good bread, as it is dangerous to have bad: 

 And it is very Angular that there fhould be, at the 

 fame time, well-meaning and learned men, who 

 forbid the firft as a poifon, while others recommend 

 the latter. Vegetables have always been neccflary 

 for man. 



No nation has ever been difcovered who Kved 

 wholly on animal food. All have made uie of 

 bread, or fome equivalent for it -, that is, fome ve- 

 getable farinous fubftance, which prevents the fa- 

 tiety of all animal food, and the corruption which 

 would be thcneceflary confcquence: even the bark 

 of fir-trees has been u fed for this purpofe; but 1 

 do not fcruple to affirm, that of all thcfe vegetable 

 fubflances, bread made of wheat is certainly the 

 beft. Of all the objcdlions which M. Linguet 

 inakes againft it, there is not one well founded. 

 It is very certain, that if wheat be fimply pounded, 

 as maize, buck-wheat, cu: millet, in the kneading 



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