THE FOODS OF THE NEW EARTH 



material from which these foods are prepared 

 for man, are in these later days being pro- 

 vided with avenues of information along which 

 they may travel to health. Among all the 

 activities of the New Earth none is more im- 

 portant, none is entered in upon with greater 

 zest by the practical men of science, none 

 brings a richer measure of profit and satisfac- 

 tion. It is one of the significant movements 

 of the generation this crusade, if you will, 

 against bad foods and for good foods. It is a 

 most cheering thing that people are learning 

 that it pays to be well and happy, and that 

 one of the ways to be well and happy is to eat 

 better foods, not necessarily higher-priced 

 ones, but better ones; to have these foods 

 prepared in an attractive manner, and to bear 

 in mind that the stomach is not a pack-horse 

 to be loaded and goaded but one of the most 

 delicate, precious and powerful organs of man's 

 body. Without its sympathetic and healthy 

 aid, man swiftly passes into a region which the 

 dyspeptic fitly describes as a hell upon earth ; 

 with its aid man rises to his highest estate, 

 physical, mental, indeed, in a deep, true sense, 

 moral and spiritual. The foods of a nation, 



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