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Europe, and an unleavened bread was ;i]so made. Tliere are many 

 writers who fix the first use of milk later, when mankind became 

 nomadic, and Wells himself says, "Milk is not a natural food for 



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adults; it must have seemed queer stuff to take at first and it may 

 have been only after much breeding that a continuous supply of milk 

 was secured from cows and goats." 



The use of hens' eggs and' the cultivation of jioultry seem to be 

 cjuitc recent, according to Wells. He assumes that up to 1500 B. C, 

 the only fowls in the world were the jungle fowls of Burmali and 

 India. It is probable that fowls were first domesticated there, he 

 states. It was 400 years later before the Chinese people had them 

 and still later before they reached Greece by way of Persia. Wells 

 calls attention to the fact that among the very few mentions of eggs 

 which appear in the Old Testament, only one, Job. Chapter VI, 6tli 

 verse, seems possibly to refer to the eating of hen's eggs. The ques- 

 tion of Job, in this verse, "Is there any taste in the white of an egg?" 

 may not necessarily refer to the egg of the hen, even though it is 

 simultaneous with the first mentions of jungle fowls in India and 

 Burmah, a g-reat distance away in those days. 



If then Professor Elliot is right in his conclusion that })rimitive 

 man was not a flesh eater; if Professor Ami, of Montreal, is right 

 in his statement that study of paleontology proves that man did not 

 become a flesh eater till after the glacial period; then nuts remain as 

 the only known staple source of fat and protein which were used by 

 primitive man. Milk, eggs, and animal flesh, instead of being the 

 primary staple foods that the average man considers them, are the 

 new food fads of the race, when compared to nuts, — man's staple foods 

 from the beginning. 



All tlirouffli the history of the nations of the world we find the 

 nut tree valued for its yield of food. I>onk for a moment in your 

 Bible. Turning to the laws laid down for the people of God we find 

 in Deuteronomy, Chapter 20, Verses J 9 and 20. that even when be- 

 sieging a city they were not to cut down for war purposes the trees 

 bearing food. "For the tree of the field is man's life," says the 19th 

 verse, while the 20th verse permits the destruction and use of the trees 



