A NEW ARISTOCRACY by John Harvey Kellogg

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 3, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 18.

A NEW ARISTOCRACY.

By John Harvey Kellogg

BOTH rich and poor need to be trained to the point of recognizing the body as the noblest and most precious of man’s possessions, and worthy of the highest respect and the most conscientious care. Society needs to organize and recognize a new aristocracy,—an aristocracy of health, the membership in which shall be open to the poor as well as to the rich, the only necessary qualifications being sound physical health and correct habits of life. An aristocracy of wealth has no just foundation. It is indeed an artificial and illegitimate classification. An aristocracy of health would be truly a royal fraternity, one characterized not by blue blood, but by red blood.—J. H. Kellogg, M.D., in Good Health, April.