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Furthermore, it includes the idea of acquiring that 

 sort of food in accordance with the way of living. 

 An American Indian required several square miles 

 of land in order to thrive by his -way of living. He 

 could not exist at the Chinaman's rate of three to 

 the acre on land cultivated intensively. A China- 

 man suddenly deposited upon an Indian's square 

 mile would not know how to get his breakfast. All 

 of this relates to the adult Indian and Chinaman 

 and to what psychologists call his thought-habit. 

 Adults ought to be quarantined largely because of 

 their attitude toward economic questions in general. 

 An Indian child or a Chinese child may easily be 

 taught to live like the adults of each other or in 

 some better way altogether. New thought-habit in 

 relation to foods is now the order of the day because 

 of rapidly increasing population. Thought-habit is 

 desirable for daily working purposes until it reaches 

 its limitations. Limitations are reached when any 

 man imagines that the world is really faced by ques- 

 tions of shortage of food supply. Were wheat, corn, 

 rice, and other grains to be suddenly stricken from 

 the Earth, man might then live better than ever 

 before. Nut crops with their large average yield 

 per acre at less expenditure of labor would furnish 

 more of the food essentials than are to be obtained 

 from grain crops. Famine occurs in grain regions 

 rather than in tree regions. Primitive man depended 

 upon wild plants and animals for his food supply. 

 In a second stage of development man has come to 

 depend upon cultivated plants and domesticated ani- 



