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genial southern climes, that the habit of preying upon the weaker ones became established in them. Once acquired this cruel habit came to be imitated by the animals of the tropical regions also, until it became a part and parcel of their nature.
But mother Nature never leaves unpunished those of her offspring that go astray from her control and learn to play foul towards her other children. As has been proved by the eminent Dr. A. Haig, all animal matter is saturated with uric acid poison, the fruitful source of numerous virulent types of diseases. Man or beast, all that take to animal diet import into their blood the poison of a very pernicious kind which not only undermines their own health but also tends to deteriorate both the mind and body of their progeny. In this manner all the flesh - eating creatures are made gradually to lose their vitality and become extinct at the end of a few centuries. To this hidden cause that thus saps the essentials of life, must we attribute the extinction of the huge carnivorous animals which in the past prehistoric ages were roving about the earth in large numbers. Even now how few in number are such harmful and worthsless animals as lions, tigers, bears, wolves and the like when compared with the swarms of such mild strong and useful animals as cattle, horse, sheep, deer and others that live entirely upon leaves and herbs.
Now, a problem of vital importance that concerns the lives of millions every year, remains unnoticed even by men of culture; for the source of terrible epidemics has not as yet been properly inquired into, and the remedial measures that are sought to bring relief to the suffering and the dying multitude do but touch the surface and not the depth of that source. As has been shown above, all animal carcasses being charged with extremely poisonous substance, it is from their exudations that infectious diseases of a terrible kind take their rise, spread rapidly everywhere and carry away millions of lives every year and every season. The disintegrated particles of putrid flesh continually escape into the
