Vegetables
Vegetarianism is unquestionably the natural diet of man. He will attain a more mature age when subsisting on this character of food than when on flesh diet. When the fact is considered that nearly all of our own medium class farmers are practically vegetarians, not from choice, but because of their inability to get fresh meat there remains but little to support the flesh-diet theory.
Attention is often called to the British as the meat-eating nation, and even there the poorer classes of England, Ireland and Scotland, which, really furnish the vigor upon which is founded the brains of the country, are nourished almost entirely on vegetarian diet. Like our own middle-class farmers they can not afford meat more than once or twice each week, and sometimes not even so frequently. No serious objection can be made to eggs and milk if they seem to be properly digested, though in the strictest sense they are not really a part of vegetarian diet.
Each individual should study out his own salvation. Find the diet that seems to furnish the most energy and then adhere to it until you have good reason to change. If this suggestion is followed, sufficient care is maintained not to overeat, regular exercise is taken and if an occasional fast of a day or two is practiced when necessary, there will be but little deviation from that high degree of health which fills life with such vast possibilities.
