184 LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 



beef and ale ? Because he knows that these are 

 extremely unnatural food for newly-born infants. 

 Why does he recommend mild farinaceous food, in 

 preference to beef and ale ? Because this, though 

 not the natural food of newly-born infants, is, 

 nevertheless, not so unnatural, but more natural 

 than beef and ale. But why does he prefer, for the 

 infant's support, cow's milk, before farinaceous food ? 

 Because cow's milk is more natural to infant's than 

 farinaceous food ; that is, it approaches, in its own 

 nature, more nearly to the mother's milk than fari- 

 naceous food does. But why does he prefer ass's 

 milk to cow's milk ? Because ass's milk is still more 

 natural than cow's milk. But why does he prefer 

 a wet-nurse to all the other means of nourishment ? 

 Because human milk, though not the mother's, is 

 the most natural of all. But why does he recom- 

 mend that mode of nourishing the infant which is the 

 most natural? Because he believes that that movie 

 which is the most natural is also the most proper. 



Now, if that food which is unnatural to infants 

 is also improper to infants, would it not seem that 

 whatever food is unnatural to man is also improper ? 

 And if this be true of food, must it not also be true 

 of habits ? 



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