THE FOOD QUESTION 



believe. However life-like it may be, 

 nothing but what is really living can be 

 fed. Nor were the old Egyptians differ- 

 ent when they surrounded their dead 

 mummies with articles of food and drink 

 for the spirits which hovered about them. 

 Their mummies did live once, and why not 

 let them eat and drink as they did before? 

 The answer is the same: nothing without 

 life can be fed. 



Darwin indeed made the strife over the 

 great Food Question about the only cre- 

 ator needed for calling living forms into 

 existence, as Nature, he said, practically 

 put the same question to all, namely, how 

 to eat or keep from being eaten. It was 

 the food question which set Natural Selec- 

 tion to shape the lion so that he would be 

 well hid while waiting for his living meal 

 on a gazelle, and in turn made the legs of 

 the gazelle good for running away from 

 him. 



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