The world is just awakening and far more inquiry will now be made in the future as to the chemical properties of food, and also as to its necessary quantity and calorific value.  It will then be clearly appreciated that vegetable food has a higher value as a producer of energy than animal food, because we find in it in more available form the original elements of force which exists in all matter.  For the animal kingdom lives upon the vegetable kingdom and obtains every power it has from vegetable atoms.  In the vegetable kingdom the vibration of the electrons is of an electrical character; therefore, vegetable food is of value in the form of electrical force, through its nutritive salts.  By maintaining vital processes through its vibrations it renders us another service of a magnetic nature.  It is definitely known that quite as much force is derived from vegetable as from animal food, because the former is introduced into the system chiefly in the form of a rapidly vibrating positive magnetic force.  Because of its slow vibration vegetable food manifests a lower degree of heat than animal food, and plants possess less warmth than animals.

Diet.

For this reason vegetable diet is distinctly appropriate in febrile diseases.  By reason of its more moderate vibration it is also the best diet for nervous people.

Food Standard.

The usefulness of any article of diet depends upon its adaptability for entering into combinations within the system.  This, in turn, depends solely upon its higher or lower standing in respect to vibrations.  This is the reason why the human organism cannot subsist upon mineral food.

Heat.

We need in our vital economy a definite amount of heat, or positive magnetic force.  This is lacking when the system neither produces enough to meet its needs in compensation for expended energy or is not properly supplied with food, fresh air and sunshine.

Discretion.

For this reason it is well to remember that discretion must be used, as any unauthorized, unwise or too rapid change to a strict vegetarian diet may result, in certain cases, in bringing about an underfed condition or in weakening, and even disease, so that the system may be obliged to call in the aid of digestive tonics in order to obtain all the material it needs for the formation of its body-cells.

Enough, however, has been said on the subject I think, to clear the stage, as it were, of the debris of antiquated “orthodox” performances.

We of the independent and rational branch of the science of healing, ignorantly termed “unorthodox,” have devised a means of preventing disease and curing it, when encountered, in a natural way, with materials that regenerate and invigorate the blood, and this method is slowly but surely fighting its way into general recognition.  In time we may hope to be able to make the so-called “inevitable”