All these notions are nonsense, as we should know if we had learnt the laws of life at school instead of, shall I say, the idle fictions about worthless people, best forgotten, which we call history. Some day all fldren will learn the profound and simple facts about the human body the highest, most marvellous and divine of created things, and therefore the most worthy of -reverent study, For instance, such facts as these.
The warmer the surrounding air, the less rapidly does the body cool, and therefore the less heat need it Produce in order to maintain its hemal temperature—at which alone its organs, especially the brain, can fanetion properly. Therefore, since appetite has been given us as the pleasant and superbly skilful guide to our needs for fuel, appetite declines in warm weather, in order to save us from the disastrous results of taking in more fuel than we can burn without serious difficulty in keeping cool enough, But because we do not understand the meaning and function of appetite and because in many instances we have said, "Stomach, be thou my god!" we proceed to' invoke condiments, and variety and novelty of flavour and preparation, in order to provide ourselves with an appetite which is artificial, and therefore misleading and dangerous,
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