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JAINISM IN WORLD PROBLEMS
Prof, Baelz of Tokio had offered meat for their extraordinary achievement, begged to be allowed to leave it, as it made them feel too tired and they could not run so well as before. From these facts we inust conclude, whether we will or not, that the energy relations of fresh vegetables correspond with the requirements of the human organism to a far greater xtent than do the best a:imal foods, such as milk and eggs; Theed that they alone completely meet the need.
This result completely corresponds with my theory of the "sential nature of chemical nutritive energy and its originaidentity with sun-light.
The wplanation is continued ou pages 109 and 110 where we have it
“Involunucily one's thoughts turn here to the words of the American investigator, McCollum : "that diet is an essential, if not the most important factor for spiritual, moral, physical and culvral development and for resistance to (iseases.'
"By means of a hevy, dinly-lighted diet-rich in all the different kinds of flesh au stimulants---people not only invite cliseases, they build within themselves barricades against the wisest and the most powerful, friend of their life, against the spirit.
"These plant food-units contain everything which the human organism requires, and in the right proportions : enough of the various proteids, a lealth of the best energy givers, the carbohydrates, from whic, fats can at any time he formed in the organism, or the ints themselves; the minerals necessary for life (the nutritive salts) in the excited state and in the right proportion, and accordingly also the vitamins, or supplementary, or creative substances, which are arousing so much attention. No one therefore need wonder any longer that man can amply nourish himseli, grow and keep well with these alone, that the ox, horse, stag, roe, and cron the elephant can built lip their proteid rich bodies from
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