| Show depends on physiology before and since my fasts of forty days in minneapolis in 1877 and new york in time to the investigation of the physiological and psychological effects of food and as a result of my study and experiments I 1 unqualifiedly assert that the prevailing skepticism as to the superior claims of a vegetarian diet for th ebest development of man in his entirety is only compatible with the most incorrigible indifference and mournful destitution of knowledge scriptural and otherwise on a subject of importance it is not often that the claim is set up that the question of food just as properly belongs to the domain of theology as to physiology yet I 1 champion the claim and considering how much the happiness and welfare of humanity depends upon the soundness and precision of its moral and religious views and not forgetting the ever increasing control which scientific proof exerts over the masses of men I 1 will endeavor to prove to the philosophic mind at least that the advancement van cement af pf the absolute or perfect religion as taught and lived by the man of nazareth which was a religion of practice and not of theory depends capon tapon a proper understanding of physiology especially the physiology of the digestive apparatus dr tanner in kansas city times |
