The professor, however, inclined his head sympathetically.
"It is my intention," he remarked, "in drafting my final prescription, that the action of the food shall not be so violent.

If the quantities are less strenuously mixed, the food, as you can surmise, will be so much the milder.

A gentle preference for truth, a dawning appreciation of beauty, a gradual withdrawal from the grosser things of life--these may, perhaps, be conceived after a week's trial of the food.

Then a regular course of it--say for six months or so--would build up these tendencies till they became a part of character.

The change, as you see, would not be too sudden.