es as much for preparing and serving the food, and had reason
for believing that some portion of my supplies was utilized by others
than myself. As evidence of the fact that the experiment was not
dangerous, I may add that I have pursued the same meatless dietary
during my entire lifetime since, as I had done for ten years before, and
I am still alive and hard at work. Man is naturally a frugivorous
animal. According to Cuvier, the great French naturalist, the natural
diet of human beings, like that of those other primates, the
orangoutang, the chimpanzee, and the gorilla, consists of fruits, nuts,
tender shoots and cereals. A sturdy Scotch highlander informed me that
his diet consisted of brose, bannocks, and potatoes, and that he rarely
ever tasted meat. When asked what he fed his dogs, he replied, "The same
as I eat myself, sir." The high-bred foxhounds of the southern states
are fed on cornmeal, oatmeal and bread, and rarely taste flesh of any
sort. Dogs thus fed are hardier, healthier, have more endurance, better
wind, keener scent, greater intelligence, and are more easily trained
than meat-fed dogs. A diet which is safe for carnivorous animals, must
certainly be safe for human beings, who belong to a class of animals all
representatives of which, with the exception of man are flesh
abstainers.

Some years ago I experimented with various sorts of carnivorous animals
for the purpose of ascertaining whether nuts could be made a complete
substitute for meat. Among the various animals utilized for the
experiment was a young wolf from the northwest that had never eaten
anything but fresh raw meat. After giving the animal one day to get
accustomed to its new surroundings and to acquire a good appetite, I
gave him a breakfast of nuts properly prepared and was delighted to find
that he took to the new ration without the slightest hesitation and
remained in excellent health during the several months of the
experiment. I succeeded perfectly in substituting nuts for meat with all
the animals experimented upon, including a fish hawk, with the single
exception of an old bald-headed eagle, which refused to be converted.

I have a suspicion that the so-called carnivorous animals were all at
some remote time nut eaters; the so-called carnivorous teeth would be as
useful in tearing off the husks of cocoanuts and similar fruits, as for
tearing and eating flesh.

An economic argument for the general adoption of nuts as a suitable