WORTH OF A HUMAN BODY.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 60, 3 May 1912, Page 2

WORTH OF A HUMAN BODY.

German Professor's Opinion.

We owe to a German professor the momentous discovery that the ordinary human being has a commercial value. It has been supposed that if there is anything on earth entirely valueless it is the ordinary human being, but popular belief is once more shown to be wrong. The professor says that tho average man contains fat worth 10s. 6d., enough for the heads of 2200 matches (the wood could be cut from bis head), enough magnesium for some respectable fireworks, albumen equal to a hundred eggs, a toaspoonful of sugar, and a pinch of salt. Altogether the average man or woman is worth about £1 12s. at current prices, and, with advancing rates, there is no knowing what he might go to. Obviously this undeveloped wealth should attract the investor and .speculator, and some way should be found to make available for public use all this phosphorus, fat. magnesium, eggs, sugar, and salt. It has been too long true that 'the good is oft interred with our bones."