How many of the world's citizens will be willing to accept the statement that World War I with its loss of millions of lives, property damage beyond computation, the rape of unnumbered women and girls, and of cruelties that may not be mentioned, had its beginning many decades ago in the disobedience of one woman to Dietary Laws? Such are the facts.

Dr. P.B. Randolph, in his book, Love, Woman, Marriage, written about 1865, states:

"I. Isabella of Spain, by injudicious feeding, became affectionately deranged.

"II. That derangement was beyond the power of her husband, the King-consort, to remedy.

"III. There thus was engendered in her nature a morbid want, sufficiently energetic to cause a desire to forget both her dignity and wifehood; and under its devilish impulse she cast about her for an object upon whom to place her diseased affection. That object she found in one Marfori, an ordinary soldier in the ranks. (This affair was the inspiring idea of Offenbach's Fritz, in his opera Bouffe, The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein.) Isabella raised Marfori from his subalternship to the rank of a Grandee of Spain, and Queen's favorite, thereby offending the pride and Blood of Aragon and Castile, the arrogant dignity of the Hidalgos and the Cid, and laid, with her own hands, the fatal train whose explosion shattered two of the proudest monarchies of earth - France and Spain, raised a third-rate power of Europe to the first rank and leading position of States - Prussia - disrupted the Roman church, shattered the Papacy, devastated a dozen nations, spread havoc through the world, and changed the fate of empires, affecting the very foundation of civilization itself.

"IV. The next step witnessed her dethronement and contemptuous flight to Paris, itself streaming with moral filth and corruption, and ready at the touch to burst forth in self-consuming fire and flame.

"V. The attempt to enthrone a Hohenzollern in her stead, and the awful war that followed that attempt, culminating in Sedan and a series of corresponding disasters to all concerned, including the silly woman, Isabella, and the miserable fool, Marfori, the whole culminating in a still more dreadful, because fratricidal, civil war.

"The end is not yet(1), for out of this trouble well spring greater ones, involving the slaughter of myriads, the overturning of other dynasties, the abrogation, finally, of kingship the wide world over(2), the installation of his majesty, the people(3), on the throne of the earth, and the beginning of the better end. All springing - these tremendous effects, the last being God's part direct in the vast drama, not man's - from a disorderly love-life, a specie of amative madness in a woman, caused by too high living, too much play, and no work at all."
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(1) This prophecy was made in 1865.
(2) Among the kings or emperors dethroned were those of Germany and Russia. The great debacle which took place in Russia after World War I may be traced indirectly to the same cause.
(3) To a degree this came about as the result of World War I. Give serious thought to what is now taking place in once free America, as a result of fanatical impulses engendered by the same cause which induced Isabella to act as she did, plus disorder in the endocrine system of man, and which has brought about such tragedies as prohibition with its wholesale degradation of the youths of America; consider the wholesale butchery and disruption of moral laws following the revolution in Russia; are we not forced to wonder whether a kingdom under a moderately wise ruler, is not far better than a republic governed by gang politicians and fanatical reformers? This thought is germane to our thesis when we bear in mind that during the era of Prohibition in many states in our democracy, physicians of all schools, men whose knowledge and good sense could not be questioned, were prohibited from prescribing alcohol as medicine even when they believed in heart and soul that it might save the sufferer. [Editor's Note: One cannot help but wonder what Dr. Clymer would have to say if he were alive today when the Government and the FDA dictate the only acceptable medicine treatments.
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Few of the world's prophecies have been as completely fulfilled as this one made more than half a century before the finale of one of the greatest of the world's tragedies.

Had Isabella been instructed in Dietary Laws and followed them, Spain might have remained one of the greatest nations on earth, France have been easily able to hold her own against all encroachments, Prussia never have been able to become one of the world's greatest war-making powers, the Hohenzollerns remained unenthroned and the peoples of the world would not have been obliged to witness and participate in the Great Madness.

Most of us have witnessed only the end of the great tragedy, but in the millions of the individual kingdoms - the homes - throughout the world, equally destructive dramas are taking place daily. The end of these individual tragedies may be as fearful as the one just illustrated, for who may visualized what shall follow as the result of a child born today from a mother whose diet is such that she is a universe of unsatisfied and unfulfillable desires, and possibly of a father whose entire blood stream is filled with scrofulous poison from the continued consumption of pork, fresh and cured, potatoes, white bread, other denatured foods, and intoxicating, and frequently poisoned drink?

In a certain sense and to a degree, the mind of man is master of the body. But how many men and women of today have so completely developed their mental forces as to be able to hold under control the conditions of the body? Who, for instance, suffering with a severe neuralgia can laugh and act as though all were as it should be? Who, under the influence of a temperature sufficiently high to produce delirium, can hold a rational conversation and plan constructively? We have heard of those who pretend to be capable of all these things, but they have been unable to substantiate their claim.

Filled with weakness and irritating poisons and toxins, the body cannot be at peace. The blood, filled with ureas and infections, by the nature of things, must directly affect the mental attitude and cause thoughts and acts in harmony with the blood condition, for the life of man is in the blood, and his mind is in harmony with the impressions set up by physical conditions.

The young girl who is constantly served with foods that irritate, stimulate, and arouse the passions, must necessarily fall a victim to the first shrewd Don Juan with whom she comes in contact and who knows how to arouse these passions to their highest intensity.

Germane with this thought, Dr. P.B. Randolph said: "The grandest oration ever delivered could have been made to terminate in lugubrious pathos by a few tiny drops of croton-oil; and the greatest hero the world ever saw will quit the heroics suddenly, when impelled thereto by a few grains of tartar emetic; and even a person with suicidal intent will experience a sudden and sobering change by the persuasive power of a spoonful of lobelia; while all human experience demonstrates that happiness and misery alike depend quite as much upon physical and chemical states as they do on more mystical causes."

If the mind were able to control the entire category of sensations felt and experienced throughout the body, then these things would be impotent to cause untoward acts, but it is not true that the mind can totally overcome or control sensations or conditions affecting the physical being. It could, then it would be capable of eliminating the thought, or desire, in the first place. Just as the oil, the tartar emetic, and the lobelia will at once upset the entire schemes, plans, and resolutions of the mind, so may an inharmonious combination of food be able to cause temporary insanity, murderous melancholy, a fit of immorality, a period of imbecility or a fatal attack of heart failure due to gas pressure, irrespective of how strong the mind of the person may ordinarily be, or how pure and moral the thoughts and life of a girl or woman may previously have been.

Why? Because even very slight chemical changes in a person's body, whether produced by matter in any of its subtle forms, or as a result of emotional reactions, are potent to alter entirely the aspect of a whole life and determine the future of that human career.

It has been shown that a fit of anger, hatred, jealousy, or malice, will create a poison in the blood which may be sufficiently potent to kill animals. In like manner, chemistry has demonstrated that in some foods there are native vital chemical agents which will destroy diseased tissues or heal morbid areas, while other constituents in food will create conditions which cause disease. Some combinations cause mental illness, others help to cure it.

Again, certain combinations of food, due to their sedative, calming, soothing action will normalize the most passionate, and morally irresponsible, and while under this toxic influence consent to a liaison which may result in a child who will be the progenitor of a long line of men and women wholly irresponsible morally - a race of libertines, Magdalenes, criminals, and thieves.

A combination of beef and beer, potatoes and beans or white bread, may soon create a passionate desire, an irritability and moral weakness in a man or woman who, under ordinary circumstances, would remain above reproach. Such a diet, long continued, could be the means of making man a libertine, woman an outcast. It will set up such an inharmonious chemical action in the mind and body of the average young man that his companions will find it an easy matter to lead him astray, or for him to become a victim of solitary vice.

In the girl or young woman, the desires, passions, and thoughts aroused through the irritation set up by wrong food, will pave the way for acts that would otherwise never enter the mind and, if suggested by others, would be repulsed without hesitation.

A combination of beef and whiskey or wine, potatoes and white bread or baked beans can have an identical action. Such a combination served but once a day, or interchanged with the former combination can destroy physical well-being, moral strength and responsibility. Why? Because it is wholly inharmonious, acid, and toxin-creating, unbalanced, congesting, non-eliminating, irritating, and starves the cells, irritates the nervous system and the generative organism.

Dried beans, though a valued protein food in any form, especially baked, when served with or without alcoholic drinks, or combined with potatoes or white bread, can create irritating toxins and be capable of arousing the passions beyond the possibility of control or satisfaction through normal or natural means. Irrespective of the manner in which they are prepared, when seasoned with black pepper and catsup, they are equally disastrous. We are aware, of course, that baked beans are considered a staple food and are consumed by millions, but we also know that immorality is rampant.

We do not wish to be understood as believing or teaching that dried beans are not a desirable food, or are unfit for human consumption, By no means! Dried beans are good as food, especially during the cold months, but careful consideration must be given to the foods combined with them. Baked beans, even when combined with ham or bacon, if served with lettuce or celery and one or more cooked vegetables, either fresh or canned, make a splendid meal and one that is health-sustaining and vitality-creating, especially for those who perform physical labor. It must, however, also be admitted that dried beans, in almost any form, are more or less passion creating and for this reason should be served sparingly to young people of either sex, except those deficient in red blood corpuscles.

Because dried beans contain all the elements found in white bread and potatoes, these two starches should not be combined with the beans at a meal; congestion can result and set up an irritation and resultant ill-effects. Dried beans contain most of the elements found in the meats, including toxins, and therefore should not be served with meats. Experiment has proved that dried beans take the place of meat and starches, and should not be combined with them.

Oatmeal or rolled oats in any form should not be served with milk and refined sugar This is an inharmonious and irritating combination, that can arouse the passions unless other foods cooling in their nature are served with it. Boys and girls whose health is normal should be served sparingly with oatmeal and cream, and only during the colder months or when engaged in athletics. A vegetable soup, oatmeal and cream in place of meat or fish, and several vegetables will give good results.

Dried fish of every variety, baked with or served with dried beans are irritating in the system and passion-arousing. Either should be served as a protein food, and as fish is lacking in starch, baked potatoes may be added and several vegetables as well. Fish, being rich in protein, should not be combined with beans because these are also mostly of the same element.

Dried beef, the basis of so many meals in numerous American families, if served with intoxicating liquors, whether in the form of beer, wine, or whiskey, is generally highly irritating and therefore morality-destroying. Being a highly concentrated food it should be combined only with vegetables, fresh, uncooked preferred, and possibly with a baked potato.

Oysters, clams, crabs, and lobsters, are highly vitalizing foods, but when served with condiments such as mustard and black pepper, or with any of the alcoholic drinks, may induce lusty thoughts and desires. These foods should be combined with vegetables and baked potatoes, as they are deficient in starch. They are extremely valuable for consumption in all so-called wasting diseases such as anemia and tuberculosis, and whenever the vitality is below par.

Lobster salad, white bread, potatoes and dessert served to boys and girls, may create an irritable nervous system which arouses their passions and makes the corruption of their morale possible. Such a food combination reduces the power of resistance in proportion as it creates a desire for personal satisfaction, and this desire can become such that no amount of indulgence will be able to satisfy. Lobsters, like all sea food, are a valuable food, but they must be properly combined. If made the basic article of a meal, combined with baked potato and several vegetables, they are a most valuable food, particularly for those who lack in vitality, have weakened nerves, and are generally run down. What has been said of lobster is true of all sea food.

Snapper and turtle soups with brandy, soups rich with condiments and wine, plum pudding with brandy sauce, fried apples with brandy dressing, fried or baked sweet potatoes with brandy dressing, all these are unbalanced, highly irritating foods, and their direct influence is to inflame the generative or sexual system, arouse desire, and at the same time reduce the power of resistance.

Any food, or combination of foods, which reduces the resistance in man, woman, boy or girl, and at the same time creates an irresistible desire, a passion which demands indulgence, yet one which cannot be appeased despite indulgence, will in time become so overpowering that self-respect, friendship, honor, moral law, even god Himself are set aside as though they were non-existent - such foods, we say, assuredly have a spiritual significance. We have pointed out a few of these food combinations. They do not affect all people in the same manner; their precise influence depends greatly on individual temperament.

On the other hand, if there are foods and combinations of foods, through which health is maintained, strength conserved, vitality increased, irritations reduced, passions normalized, nerves fed, blood cleansed, and mind balanced, then we must admit that these also have a spiritual significance.

There are other foods which, though of a different type, are equally destructive because they are negative. Their ingestion starves the nervous, mental, and sexual systems and through this process of starvation they greatly reduce the power of resistance and the moral stamina which helps the mind to decide between right and wrong. In this weakened state these people are readily overruled by those of a more positive mind. In some respects such foods are actually more destructive because the victim does not possess sufficient energy even to attempt a return to normality after an error has been committed.

Among these negative foods we have cornstarch, maizena, milled tapioca, arrowroot, sago, pearled barley, milled rice, and other denatured foods. They are insidious frauds. Why? Because they appear to be, and are accepted as, foods, yet do not contain anything whatever which can supply protoplasm or the life principles to the system, and the nervous system, mental system, and generative systems are all starved though the desire for food is satisfied.

It is not difficult to be a saint when the food consumed nourishes the nerves, creates an alert mind, and keeps the blood clean and vitalized, the body filled with vital power, the passions and desires normal yet potent, the system free from congestion, and all functions operating normally.

Reversely, it is most difficult, even a herculean task, for man, woman, boy, girl, or even saint, to be kind, strong, and free from vicious thoughts and habits, when every cell in the brain and nervous system is crying for nutriment, when the vitality is low, the brain functioning abnormally, the blood filled with miasmas, the creative function either irritated or wholly without potency, the body congested, and every physical function in a chaotic state. It is as difficult for these food victims to be spiritual as for a healthy, sensitive man to keep from saying a fervent damn when he wants to sleep and finds his room filled with Jersey mosquitoes.
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