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Let us now "make good" on our first proposition: That we do not get our strength from food. The brain is a storage battery of vital energy, which it charged in. some unknown manner, and from some unknown source, during steep. The "stomach is a machine which is run by brain Power and the digestion of food is a tax on strength, and not a source of strength.
Now, as to the mathematics! A laborer will consume a beefsteak and a couple of potatoes, and will shovel twenty tons of earth to a height of five feet; was there sufficient potential energy in the food to perform the work. A Japanese soldier, carrying a heavy load, can march and fight all day and only consume a handful of rice; and be can do this for an indefinite period without loss of weight or strength.
Can any one seriously claim that the enormous amount of energy he displays was potentially in the few ounces at rice consumed per diem? No machine which science has been able to devise can extract one five-hundredth part as much energy from a pound of beef as the human body must draw from it if the old physiology is true', but it is not true, It is mathematically impossible. A man will eat a few slices of pork, and will "run down," catch and overpower two or three fullgrown hogs by the sheer excess of his physical power over theirs. Is the potential energy
