p. 61 | Slow Eating

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 28, 1886

Slow Eating.

THE idea of rest and recreation and deliberation in eating, no longer occupies the thought of the American boy, much less of the business man. Yet the power of life depends as much upon this as upon any one conduct of life. A thorough digestion not only leaves the mind clear and the nervous system placid, but so provides the physical and mental machinery with its propelling power as to make thought as natural as if it were a physical function. It is not difficult to see in the work, as well as in the writings of some men, the traces of a bad physical condition. Emerson overstated the case when he stated that the sick man is on the road to rascality, but, nevertheless, did indicate what is true, that a man in a chronic state of embarrassed digestion is out of gear with himself and the rest of mankind. We believe that the foundation of many an incapacity is laid in this want of quiet, deliberate eating.—The Independent.