The philosophy of eating. By Albert J. Bellows, M.D.

THE

PHILOSOPHY OF EATING
The Hluman Body: Its Wants and Resources.
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground."
THIS statement, incomprehensible to the human mind
as it is, is most beautifully confirmed by chemical
analysis. At least it is proved, that the elements of the
human system and the elements of the soil, taken anywhere on the surface of. the earth, from the equator to
the poles, are identical; and it is also proved that the
" grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind," which the earth brought forth
before man was made, all are endowed with power to
take from the soil these elements, one by one, and fit
them to be received and appropriated directly to the
supply of the human system, or indirectly accomplish
the same purpose by being first appropriated by the
" beast of the field and the fowl of the air," and then
in their flesh to furnish these necessary elements to man.
Geological evidence is conclusive that man was not
made till this whole arrangement was perfected, so that
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