CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



The search for food is the oldest of instincts. 

 It is the master-motive of evolution. It has 

 reared empires up and thrown them down. As 

 Buckle has show r n, where the national food is 

 cheap and plentiful, population increases more 

 rapidly. And as Sir James Crichton-Browne, 

 in a recent book on "Parcimony in Nutrition," 

 maintains, the lack of food is a prolific cause of 

 war, disease, and social misery in its various 

 forms. "Nothing is more demoralizing," he 

 says, "than chronic hunger." 



"For lack of bread the French Revolution 

 failed," said Prince Krapotkin. For lack of 

 bread the opium traffic flourishes in India and 

 China; the secret of the prevalence of opium is 

 that the natives use it to prevent hunger-pangs 

 in time of famine. Once let those countries 

 have cheap bread, and there may be no more 

 opium sold there than there is to-day in Kansas. 

 For lack of bread came the war between Russia 

 and Japan; what the one nation wanted was a 

 seaport for the grain of Siberia, and what the 

 other wanted was more land for the support of 

 her swarming population. For lack of bread 



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