Uncooked foods & how to use them : a treatise on how to get the highest form of animal energy from food, with recipes for preparation, healthful combinations and menus / by Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Christian.

  • Christian, Eugene, 1860-1930.
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: Uncooked foods & how to use them : a treatise on how to get the highest form of animal energy from food, with recipes for preparation, healthful combinations and menus / by Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Christian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    THE PROBLEM OF PROBLEMS. EVERY century since civilization began has left upon the pages of history some great thing, something worthy of a place in literature and memory. Empires and dynasties have arisen and fallen like bubbles on .the water; bloody typhoons called wars have swept over the earth and exterminated races and changed the geography of the map of the world. The mind of man was employed for thousands of years in trying to ascertain where he came from, for what purpose he was here, and where he was going. Stimulated and excited by invention and travel, only a few hundred years ago the faculties of gain and accumulation began their development. These have evolved on and on, until they have reached such ugly and vulgar eminence that it is no longer respectable to be ex- tremely rich. It is only of recent years that the intelligence of mankind has been directed towards finding out