It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digistive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs and bacon, it says, "Work!" After a beefsteak and porter, it says, " Sleep!" After a cup of tea (two spoonfuls for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes), it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strenght. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like-spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, upthrough long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!"
After hot muffins it says "Be dull and soulless, like a beast of the field - a brainless animal with listless eye, until by sny ray of fancy, or of hope, or of fear, or love, or life." And after brandy, taken in sufficient quantity, it says, "Now, come, fool, grin and tumble, that your fellow-men may laugh - drivel in folly, and splutter in senseless sounds, and show what a helpless ninny is poor man whose wit and will are drowned, like kittens, side by side, in half an inch of alcohol."