Failures of VegetarianismSonnesnschein, 1902 - 202 pages |
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Page 196 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 196 - Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
Page 99 - ... given out continuously for a long period of time ; but in a sudden rush at a near distance, the leopard will infallibly overtake the deer, because its flesh food stores up in the blood a reserve of force capable of being given out instantaneously in the form of exceedingly rapid muscular action.
Page 98 - ... that it causes the body to become unduly watery, whence the pallor and puffiness of the underfed ; and that the combined effect of these results is to produce a lowering of the power of resistance to unfavourable influences, including disease.
Page 149 - Analyzed by the chemist with all the appliances of his laboratory they keep their secret. The same experiment can be tried with the embryos of animals. Take the ovule of the worm, the eagle, the elephant, and of man himself. Let the most skilled observer apply the most searching...
Page 99 - To growing children a deficiency of proteid in the diet is specially disastrous, for the lack of building material which it entails may result in impaired growth and development, the consequence of which may last throughout life.
Page 86 - ... the grand experiment of the whole human family seems ever to have been to ascertain how far they can go in indulgence, how near they can approach the brink of death, and yet not die so suddenly and violently as to be compelled to know that they have destroyed themselves.
Page 155 - Under the conditions of the experiment, there was ninety-four per cent, of albuminous digestion when neither tea nor coffee was added to the digesting mixture. 2. On the addition of tea, the amount of digestion was only sixty-six per cent., — nearly one-third less.
Page 149 - Gothic and Egyptian. But if the first young germs of these three plants are placed before him and he is called upon to define the difference, he finds it impossible. He cannot even say which is which. Examined under the highest powers of the microscope they yield no clue.
Page 7 - ... Library of Games. 12mo, pp. 202. Price, $1.50, net. London: Swan, Sonnenschein & Co. ; New York : EP Dutton & Co. The title of this book is misleading, for it advocates "vegetarianism" and its success, rather than failure, when followed in accordance with the author's precepts. "Vegetarians," he says, "say that 'vegetarianism' is a success, or (to put it more concretely) that they, the 'vegetarians,' are successes. The outside public says that the cause is a failure, or that its representatives...