Les Croix de chemin au temps du bon Dieu
Il y a plus de 3000 croix de chemin le long des routes du Québec. Des croix balisaient jadis les travaux et les jours; des croix que ne voit plus aujourd’hui. Part importante de notre patrimoine, elles sont la manifestation de la foi, de l’espérance, de la créativité de nos ancêtres. “La croix de chemin au temps du bon Dieu”: un voyage au coeur de nos racines profondes.
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.
The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
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The main object was to avoid introducing into the organism what Descartes called 'animal spirits'. Thus, all animals that had to serve for the nourishment of the priests were slaughtered according to special rites, they were not murdered, as is the case nowadays".
