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The Rule of "Not Too Much/' Finally, the report received the approval of the Com- mittee of Fifty as a whole. In the discussion of these "legalized lies" which, owing to the ignorance and cowardice of so many state legislatures, are being taught in our public schools to the demoralization of the young, the report says : Another illustration of the way in which the method of partial quotation of scientific authorities is employed to serve the purposes of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is furnished by the use made of Liebig's statement as to the nutritive value of beer, often quoted in the school physiol- ogy journals and similar publications. It reads as follows : "We can prove with mathematical certainty that as much flour as can lie on the point of a table knife is more nutri- tious than eight quarts of the best Bavarian beer." This statement occurs in a rare edition of LIEBIG'S Chem- ical Letters published in 1852, and in no previous or subse- quent editions. It is well known that LIEBIG divided all food substances into two groups, viz. : nitrogenous or plastic foods and non-nitrogenous or respiratory foods. While we have not been able to see the edition in which this state- ment occurs, it is evident from what we have learned of it and from, statements in the same connection in other edi- tions, that LIEBIG, in making this statement, must have had in mind the nitrogenous ingredients of beer. To this group