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5 stomach is adapted to the digestion of chunks of flesh food.

"The hog, where food is abundant, invariably chooses fruits, nuts, roots, vegetables. The digestive organs of the hog are very similar to those of man; but his teeth are widely different. His cuspids and bicuspids assimilate to those of the carnivora. His incisors bear no resemblance to those of man. The true molars alone resemble his and those of other animals that live on vegetables. This comparison therefore proves man still further removed from the carnivora than is the hog; hence if flesh be not a natural diet for the hog—which it is not—it cannot be for man."

Says : "The masticating and digestive organs of the orang-outang may be easily mistaken for human. The differences are that the canine teeth are longer and more pointed and have intervals in the jaws to receive them when the jaws are closed, and the valvular folds of the stomach are wanting. But the by which to compare man to ascertain his dietic character. Now what are the facts about the orang? When left to choose his food, he is . Therefore comparative anatomy proves man to be not a flesh-eating animal."

Says the poet : "Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles frugiverous animals in everything, and carniverous in nothing."

, the naturalist, remarks: "This species of food is that which is most suitable to man, as is evinced by the structure of the mouth, of the stomach and of the hands."

It is demonstrably and unmistakably true that the purest blood, the most substantial and efficient bone and muscle, the most symmetrical forms, and the most perfect and uninterrupted health and exquisite enjoyment of all the physical functions, are produced by a vegetable