Note 5 — Chapter II · THE APPETITES OF HUNGER AND THIRST.
Reading edition
It is difficult, as in the above sentence, to avoid occasionally using expressions and referring to processes, which have not previously been explained; but it would only lead to confusion and unnecessary repetition to stop at every page and introduce explanations, which, after all, the reader would scarcely understand on account of their brevity. In the present instance, therefore, where I allude to the process of digestion, it is better to refer the reader to the outline given at the beginning of Chapter IV, than to distract his attention by introducing it also here.