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should be in the food consumed, A handful of rice cannot possibly furnish power to carry two hundred pounds over twenty miles of rocky ground.

4. People can fast, if properly instructed, from twenty to sixty days without material loss of strength. This would be impossible if the work-power were drawn from the daily food.
5. In death by starvation the brain loses no weight. Nature preserves the power-plant intact until the last.
6. The accession of strength felt after eating must come from the brain. It cannot come from the food, which is still an undigested mass in the stomach
7. In severe sickness Nature always takes away the appetite; proving that the digestion of food is work; a tax on strength, and not a source of strength.
8. All the other phenomena of life point us irresistibly to the conclusion that food is merely raw material, to be used in building up the body, and that it is used by an energy which is stored up in the brain during sleep.

Now, as a form of energy, life presents one peculiar characteristic; it. seems to be an exception to the: law of the correlation of forces, Heat, light, and electricity are convertible, each into the others; but none of them, so far. as we know, is convertible into life Every living thing came from a germ,which contained

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