The Last Word by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jun 25, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 26.

The Last Word

By Editor

"The Last Word."—L. Kuttner, in the Berliner Klinik, according to Public Opinion, presents "the last word on the diet question." In some cases this German doctor thinks vegetarianism good, but in most cases injurious. At the best it must not be maintained too long. We can but wonder how broad his field of observation has been. We know of persons, many indeed, who have been vegetarians for years, who, in fact, came from the "better" "mixed diet," broken in health, to find health in a vegetarian dietary. They have no desire to return. They have tested the two, and found the flesh diet wanting, and the vegetarian diet eminently satisfactory. Is not their experience worth something? Of course, there is much bad cooking and bad combinations in a vegetarian diet where amateurs blunder and suffer, and may get discouraged. For instance, a "mush diet" is not advanced vegetarianism. Dr. Kuttner may have said "the last word" for himself, but there are many more words to be said yet.