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Rh many years. It was during this period that the first practical steps were taken to establish the universal language that you have heard spoken. About this date also a new sect was formed, its members consisting of the leading intellects of America, the Colonies, and Great Britain. This sect saw and believed that all the troubles of the earth were due to excessive eating and drinking. They stated, and stated, as we now see truly, that if eating and drinking could be dispensed with, man's intellectual power would increase, and permanent morality would be ensured. What they advocated was—First of all to do away with the use of all luxuries, and then gradually to reduce the amount of ordinary food. This body became very large and powerful, and after being established one hundred years it was found that their numbers comprised one fourth the American and English people. Their compeers were astonished to see the very small amount of food they found sufficient to sustain life. They contended that it was God's will when He created man that He should take