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Rh ; so that only a small portion of it is suitable for nutrition, leaving the greater part to ferment within the channels and strain the intestines until they are contused and weakened.

"Such is the impetuosity of uncultivated or perverted human tendencies that the desire for acquisition, sometimes called greed, impels one to swallow one mouthful of food to take in another, without ever dreaming that the very last contribution of taste to the last remnant of a delicious morsel is like the last flicker of a candle, more brilliant than any of the preceding ones. In eating, the last taste is more perfectly in possession of the solution, is better than all the other stages of the process. It is the choicest and sweetest expression of the incident, as related to each mouthful. Then why not court it and obey, thereby, Nature's first law of health?"—Horace Fletcher.

The brain, also, suffers intensely. It is almost impossible to do brain work with any degree of satisfaction. There seems to be no connection between your thoughts. The power