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food, and seems to be the fit and proper aliment of a 
nervous and energetic people to whose greater 
vehemence and combativeness do those succumb of 
whose sustenance it forms no part. Nevertheless, fish 
will need to become the only resource of posterity 
against the inevitable deficiency of the more potent 
aliment, a lack that will be hastened by the diversion of 
grazing lands to the food requirements of an increased 
population. 
Meanwhile, like the overspreading of pent up waters, 
wave upon wave of humanity is dispersed over the 
bosom of our fruitful earth whose utmost gifts are to be 
absorbed by the multitudes it calls into being. Where 
population has long been dense it is, under the fostering 
influences of civilization, becoming denser ; the teeming 
throngs of Bengal and of further India undergo a steady 
increase. So also in Europe and our country the better 
condition of the poor first reflects itself in ampler 
nourishment and a constant increase in national wealth 
infers, even with a stationary population, a steady 
increase in food consumption. In South Africa form- 
erly uncultivated or abandoned areas are filling up with 
fast multiplying tribes, who, in peaceful security, till the 
responsive soil with assiduous industry and care. No 
longer devastated by warlike clansmen who before 
British occupation or rule enslaved, slaughtered and 
devastated at will, the country promises to become the 
eventual support of millions where hitherto it has 
sustained hardly more than thousands. In temperate 
South America and Australia, as well as in Siberia and 
the Canadian Northwest, the occupation of the country 
I. It isthe forceful fuel of an intense age; but with the fullest development of the 
world’s resources and the diminished field for the exercise of its energy, the need of a 
flesh diet may cease with its loss. Although, apart fromits greater proportion of water, 
fish has substantially the same composition as flesh, it lacks the stimulating power 
occasioned by the assimilation of animal tissue identical with our own. 
Animal flesh, as is well known, when fed to animals, tends to their greater ferocity, 
but in Norway fish offal frequently becomes cattle fodder, and at the extremity of 
Cape Cod, within the memory of living men, a herd of cows were similarly fed without 
impairment of their gentleness or docility. 
