RICE AND HUMAN ENDURANCE.
The Indians of the Western plains, who lived almost entirely on flesh, were fierce and warlike; the Eskimos, who also live entirely on flesh, are among the mildest and most peaceable of men. The unfortunate Armenians, on Jthe contrary, are periodically massacred by a race of bloodthirsty vegetarians. The Hindus of Bengal are the traditional horrible example of the effects of living on rice. But the Chinese and Japanese, who also live on rice—in sufficient quantity—are about the toughest and most enduring of mankind. During" the race of the allied armies to Pekin the Japanese army, on a diet of rice and dried fish, outmarched the Europeans by fifty per cent. Even in India, the Sikhs and the Rajputs, who eat but twice a day and rarely touch meat, are among the finest men physically and the best soldiers on earth.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and ail the rest. •
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 15 May 1912, Page 2
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