Millard County Chronicle | 1913-09-04 | Page 1 | World's Debt to Vegetable

1 U 1 WORLD'S DEBT TO VEGETABLE Possibly Sun Worship Hsd Its Origin In Knowledge of the Fact of the Dependents. Vegetable life may worry along w ithout animals, but animal life can't continue without vegetables. Therefore, There-fore, says an English chemist, man owe a great debt of gratitude to the vegetable. He should do his best to foster It. It Is not Intimated whether this Is an argument In favor of the theories advanced by the vegetarian, j but It is considered ample proof man j would not be here only for the bumble bum-ble vegetable kingdom. But vegetables, like animate life, are dependent upon sunlight for their existence. Tbe vegetable, however, la both the direct and the Indirect sustensnc of animal being. Animal life of certain species exists solely, or almost ao. on the flesh of other animals ani-mals But that latter food eventually Is dependent upon the vegetable. Tim would eradicate animate life should Inanimate cease to exist. The relatione between plant and animal form a beautiful dispensation. Maa owes to tb vegetable more thaa he does to lower animal life. "Thus," concludes this chemist. "Isn't It possible tbe sun worshipers perhaps had a greater realization of the value of Old Sol thaa we of th present eentaryr