derailments

Updated: May 16, 2025

If we had the history of all the derailments, collisions, of cars with human freight converted into funeral pyres, a frightful percentage of them could be traced to where "some one had blundered" because of the torpor from handling meals when the brain was compelled to higher services. Digestive, indigestive torpor is also torpor of the sense of responsibility.

Edward Hooker Dewey - The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure