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that this food demands the intoxicating stimulants of drink, and a necessity arises not only for that kind of food, but for drink also. People who live on simple food never desire these intoxicants. After considering all these things our philosophers have given us the rule that it is not the best plan to eat animal food. There are minor objections to all these rules; one is that all persons cannot live on cereals; but there are other vegetables and fruits, and in the case of fruits almost all of these are in such a condition that they can be digested at once and do not require such work of the stomach, and fruit would be one of the best foods as it has the first quality of inatter passivity, purity and quietness. These qualities are to be found to a large extent in almost all fruits and substantial foods like wheat. The sacred book of the Hindus, the Bhagavad-Ghita, which is considered very Sacred, gives certain rules with regard to these matters of diet, and these different qualities of food. It says in discribing the foods which belong to the first class, "Such foods give us more vitality, niore health, more prosperity, and we love others more from partaking of such foods. The second kind of food that which gives activity, which creates desires, passions, motions, mental feelings, these foods are those in which are to be found the properties of sour or, of saltish, or hot or bitter. These are the foods of the second kind, and they give rise to all the different enotional natures of
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