THE NEW EARTH 



men were selected. For a long time these 

 men were fed with foods treated as the foods 

 offered for sale were treated, with the result 

 that the preservatives were found injurious, 

 both when used in very small quantities for 

 a long time, and when used in large quantities 

 for a short time, creating disturbances of the 

 appetite and of the digestion and impairing the 

 health. 



The unselfishness of the men who were will- 

 ing to submit themselves to the test for the 

 good of their fellows was not only a refutation 

 of the charge that there is a growing deca- 

 dence of the true American spirit, but a proof 

 that the finest chivalry flowers even in the 

 midst of much crass selfishness. 



From every point of view the foods of the 

 New Earth are being studied and improved; 

 they are being steadily fitted for better service 

 for man. A wider knowledge than ever before 

 as to the nature and value of these foods is 

 accumulating day by day, for the benefit of 

 those who have long been in darkness. Those 

 who should know the character of foods most 

 intimately of all but who have been of all 

 most ignorant, — the ones who provide the raw 



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