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Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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products all pulse grains, such aspeas and beans, are rich in the sameelement. Besides the three general classes offoods here enumerated, there is a fourthclass, though scarcely distinct from theothers, in which certain valuable saltsare the meritorious element. Theseare principally the phosphates of lime,of potash, of soda, and of iron, withoutwhich as constituents of human foodthe nervous energy of the body can notbe long sustained. These salts are dis-tributed in both the animal and the veg-etable kingdoms, perhaps more plentifully in the latter (?), and it is now awell-known fact that the nervous vigor ofanimals turns largely upon the percent-age of the phosphates in the substancesupon which they feed. Now it is the adjustment of the humanrace to these different classes of foods, as well as to the different Race character climates of the earth, that ^tfeJ^frthedetermines the race tend- kind of food,ency of every people. This is said, firstof all, of the physical constitution which
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710 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ■will be developed in a given environ-ment, and afterwards of tlie modes ofactivity and mental dispositions whichthe given people will display. In acountry where muscular exertion is es-sential to life and welfare, and whereman must brace himself stoutly againstthe opposition of the elements—must faceangry vicissitudes of climate and season,the hardships of sterility, the obstaclesof heavy forests and oozy rivers with un-determined channels—there must needs^e a perpetual feeding upon those ele-ments of nature which furnish the es-sentials of human energy under such•i^onditions. Here it is that man must■fill himself with an abundance of solidfood. Under the action of an untutoredinstinct at first and the discipline offright reason afterwards, he slays theliving creatures and eats their tissuesand the fat. It is in the nature of the hydrocarbonfoods to supply him with heat. That isThe office of the physiological office of hydrocarbo- ^T^y ^j^g oil-p

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