All of the functions of the body are operated by something very much
akin to electricity--mental energy--so that aside from the fermentation
which gluttony makes possible, the mere drag of handling of dead
material in the body, that the body cannot use, for two or three days,
is a wasteful draught on the available mental capacity.
Using an electric power-plant as analogous to the Mind Power-Plant of
the brain, and a trolley railroad as analogous to the machinery of the
body--analogies which are very close by consistent similarity--the
loading of the stomach with unprepared food, as in gluttony, is like
loading flat cars with pig iron and running them around the line of
the road in place of passenger cars, thereby using up valuable energy
and wearing out the equipment without any profit resulting from the
expenditure.
To those who are familiar with the modern electric power-plant the
analogy between it and the human individual equipment, or Mind
Power-Plant, seems very remarkable.
To those, however, who have not visited an electric power-plant a
description is necessary.