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 Error once adopted into national habits is peculiarly difficult to counteract. He who will stem the flood of public opinion encounters obloquy and ridicule; yet the discoveries of one generation often become established truths with the next, however rudely rejected at first.

These remarks apply emphatically to national diet, which in regions of the globe has been determined by the circumstances in which man has been placed, rather than by the exercise of his primitive and uncorrupted instincts, or the rational deduction of a sound understanding. The Author hopes to prove that fruits and roots, farinaceous and succulent vegetables, were our ORIGINAL food, our NATURAL food, are still our BEST food, and must ultimately be our UNIVERSAL food.