CHAPTER X
THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION
General Principles
If we begin with the dense vehicle and consider the
physical means available to improve it and make it the
best possible instrument for the Spirit and afterward
consider the spiritual means to the same end, we shall
be including all the other vehicles as well; therefore we
shall follow that method.
The first visible state of a human embryo is a
small, globulous, pulpy or jelly-like substance, similar
to albumen, or the white of an egg. In this pulpy
globule various particles of more solid matter appear.
These gradually increase in bulk and density until they
come in contact with one another. The different points
of contact are slowly modified into joints or hinges and
thus a distinct framework of solid matter, a skeleton, is
gradually formed.
During the formation of this framework the
surrounding pulpy matter accumulates and changes in
form until at length that degree of organization
develops which is known as a fetus. This becomes
larger, firmer, and more fully organized up to the time
of birth, when the stage of infancy begins.
The same process of consolidation which
commenced with the first visible stage of existence
still continues. The being passes through the different