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A . dvance of Civilization , 5 4 Alleged Divine Permission to Eat Every Moving 2 Thing , 9 . im mm A . n als , Diseases of Co unicable to Man , 9 7 f r 8 o . Best Food Man , 7 P fo r S Birds , lea inging , ’ Blac 6 kh o use W . Taylor s itness for Christ , 7 Ro e 8 2 Chauncey , . 2 8 2 Chicago Banquet , 7 , .

Clippings , 7 5 . E 1 Diet , thics of , 47 . I Diet and Happiness, .

A m mm . Diseases of ni als Co unicable to Man , 9 7 Eat 2 Permisso n to A . Divine , lleged , 9

HO W . Drink Crave , to Cure , 4 E Of 1 thics Diet , 47 .

E . Flesh ating and Disease , 3 3

S 2 . Food for trength , 9

S 1 . Food for tudents , 7

Old A I . Fruit and ge , 4

G S . eorge Bernard haw , 7 7 H 1 6 2 1 . ealth , , 7 7 H L 6 ealthy iving , 5 . ’ P 1 2 : India s estilence , 3 N o t Kill at all , 49 . Medical and Scientiﬁc Testimony in favor of a Vege I o tarian Diet , 4 . S 1 Macaroni oup , 5 5 . New S W V S A outh ales egetarian ociety , nnual Meet 0 ing , 3 . O ’ 6 berlin s Kitchen , 7 . n 2 P V S . hiladelphia egetaria ociety , 9 P m Sir 1 2 1 it an , Isaac , . P 2 8 runes and Figs , . P 2 S 1 . lea for inging Birds , 4 P E E 1 1 lutarch ssay on Flesh ating 3 . Recei es 1 p , 5 5 . R 1 8 eviews , 3 . R m R A . ussian r y ations , 7 7 S m V 6 a ple egetarians , 5 . S 1 eakale , 5 5 . S R 6 0 8 2 1 0 1 2 6 1 6 1 ociety eports , 7 , 7 , 9 , 9 , , 5 7 5 , 9 S H 1 orley , C . . , 5 3 . S m port or Cri e , 44. Testimony Medical and Scientiﬁc in favor o f a

V 1 0 . egetarian Diet , 4 2 Thanksgiving Banquet , 7 . H 2 Third and Food , 7 . H l c a 1 o o st . Unconscious , 3 9 V n L n 1 8 egetaria , The ( ondo ) , 3 . V Ne 1 w Y . egetarian , The ( ork) , 45 V A . egetarian thlete , 5 3 V e S New Y 6 0 8 1 0 1 2 6 eg tarian ociety ; ork , , 7 9 , 7 , 9 , 1 6 1 5 , 7 5 . V u 8 egetarian T rk , The , 5 . V m N egetarians fro ecessity , 7 5 . V R 8 egetarian estaurants 7 . War R 1 2 and eason , 9 .

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A A m V S t the pril eeting of the egetarian ociety , W Hu m m Mr . J . . tchinson , the best known “e ber of t hat talented family of singers stated that the best m He . S edicine was Joy is undoubtedly right . ick ness is unhappiness ; health is joy ; joy is love , and love is perfection . A person cannot be unhappy c reatu res and o f who loves his fellow , love , to be worthy m L the na e takes in all creation . ove of the individual is either selfishness or sensuality and is unworthy of m “ . Go d L the na e The scripture says is ove , but we do not require to turn to holy writ to learn this E r self evident law . very instinct of o u nature dem onstrates t W his great truth . hile we love we are happy and spread an aura of happiness around us . He must be a very bad m an who could live among o happy people and not be influenced by their j y. Th e S m m i reverse is true of hate , it preads a ias at c o ut influence over all , blotting every good influence 2 THE VEGET A RIAN . and degrading all coming within its sphere to o ne mm ev co on l el . As we cannot truly love our family without lo vmg m k n the rest of an ind , either can we honestly love the human anim al wi thout loving the beautiful creatures which are anim ated with the same desires alth ough expressed in different ways and emanating from f n ‘ di ferent shaped bodies . The lark singi g in the sky is Spreading an area o f joy as far as its voice can reach and probably contributes as much pure thought in the heart o f m an as m any beings with higher o r ganiz ation who are apt to consider themselves the l o rds o f creation Roman emperors arereported to haveeaten dishes m ’ ade of canary bird s tongues . Is it necessary to add any further testimony to demonstrate their iniquity ; but people of the present day supposed to be civilized eat o f s pigeon pie . In fact , the lusts fle h eaters are like their other lusts , never satisfied , and ever look i ng for some new sensation to be secured at the ex o f m pense new victi s . Demonstrate as you m ay that m an is possessed of mm m an i ortal soul , it is i possible to deny that the m m actual figure we see is ani al , subject to the sa e , general laws of life , death and happiness as his four m Wh legged conte poraries . y then should we copy all the vices of the worst forms of anim al life and neglect their unfailing instinct used in the selection of food ? With one solitary exception all anim als useful m an to are herbivorous , and are practically confined a H th e m to one rticle of diet . alf the life of ajority of women is devoted to the selection and preparation m of food , wasting the ti e which could be put to THE VEGETARIAN . 3

n in better purposes , and layi g the foundation for ills numerable , when they have finally succeeded in des tro ying th e stomach w hich was intended to last One through life in good repair . class of food is f fin m su ficient , d out by experi ent what is exactly suited to your stomach with its inherited w eakness derived from flesh eating ancestors and then ea t a P sufficient quantity twice a day . roper food selected m u t b fro the fr i s of the earth , eit grain , pulse , fruit a en or roots , will lways be satisfying and is always Yo u o u joyed . will never be hungry except when y set down to your m eals and will always be happy r because in protecting your own life yo u . a e not tak ing the lives of others ; a clear conscience is the requisite of happi ness Different religions and peoples hold m any diverse I he d a ideas of heaven . recollect hearing of t e th bed of an old sailor w h o w a s being com forted by a kind christian explaining according to her ideas Sh e the beauties of a future life . “ was inter ru ted m an p by the dying , saying , But , Miss , it can ’ t be better than sitting in a public with a fiddle going , tobacco in your pipe and plenty of beer . O f This was his idea of perfect bliss . thers look or l w m ward to a p ace rest , hile y best conception would u t o be a place where we do not req ire eat , dress or t - I sleep and can work twen y four hours per day .

' think this is the experience Of all vegetarians ; they excit are never tired , while flesh eaters living on an ing and vitiated diet find it difficult to satisfy their a a o f hunger with reason ble quantity food . They are thus tempted to devour large quantities of un healthy m aterial which gradu allv wears out their di 4 THE VEGETARIAN . gestive organs and leaves them after each meal in a m u nfitted depressed condition of nerves and uscles , for work and an easy prey for any form of dissipation m a i which y be encountered . Th s is equally true of

ﬂesh - m m m all eating ani als , ost pro inent in the great m est eaters . The serpent will lie dor ant for weeks m m or onths after swallowing a large ass of ﬂesh , w hile lions and their like will be almost quiescent for I H m day after eating . erbivorous ani als are never w in this condition , they eat their food ith pleasure a instead of passion and are lw ays lively and alert . Life should be a perpetual joy from birth to death

: ul -b e and this last great change sho d _ hailed with pleasure ; when having ﬁlled a hundred year s jo r so with happiness and having accomplished all the good l possible in this ife , we hail with gladness the passage to another world where with renewed youth and an increased capacity for work we c an joyfully start on ne w and greater tasks . That this will be the general condition of mankind I have no doubt when they re turn to th e proper food of m an and abandon the use

of ﬂesh . — - Th e D r ink C r a ve Ho w t o C ur e.

BY C S N . . . . K J C JA O , M D

It is said there are no t less than six hundred thou U S : sand habitual drunkards in the nited tates , and l that of these sixty thousand at least die annual y . In this reckoning is no t included a much larger number of persons who are in the moderate use of into x ic at in m g drinks , and fro whose ranks the supply against N THE VEGETARIA . 5

1s m Bu the waste by death annually ade good . t ho w ? From o ur children come our moderate drinkers ; m m t n m o r u a s fro our odera e dri kers co e u dr nk rd , During the past fifty years efforts have beenmade m le h s which , for earnestness and enthusias , entit t o e who have m ade them to the admiration of th e W i se o s m and good the w rld over , to stay the tran for ation m en m n In ne te of sober , rational and wo e to i bria d , A m irrational ones . great any persons have been m S the saved under the te perance reformation . till , I r a k Or r W ncrease of d unk rds eeps pace , nea ly so , ith to the increase of population . It is fair , therefore , look the whole field over fromany new standpoint and i e m a which close observation exper nce y present , and see if some ad vance cannot be made i n thedi rection of g uarding and protecting the young against a i i acquiring nappet te for intox cating drinks . i o It s certain —that no pers n will drink without the desire to drink the desire be1ng always the prompt m Ho w m ing otive of indulgence . co es it then that we create this desire for strong drinks In our children ? I e answer , we do this through our wretched di tetic m m ex tensw e i n u1r1e arrange ents . I have ade q s and my opportunities have been unusually large and I never found a man Wh o was in the habit of b e coming intoxicated who did not own that he w as more o r less a glutton ; nor have I ever heard o f a man who was a drunkard w h o was careful in his c m 1 dietetic habits . All historical fa ts confir th s v n iew . If you go back into that period of civilizatio A o n o ur me known as the Middle ges , and to own ti , you will find in all places where drunkenness has h p revailed , t at there has existed with the drunkards , 6 RI THE VEGETA AN . and wi th the populationou t of which drunkards are

" " ‘ m at N o r o . ade , a glutt nous indulgence table The m an Baron was a glutton ; th eSaxon Franklin Was - a

’ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' ‘ glutton ; . the fat abbot w as a glutton ; the 1nitred “ w as lu tto n th e i at m mer priest a g ; politic an , st es an ,

“ ' w h o m n lu n a ttO . chant , beca e a dru kard was g t ’ W e m en drank e l herev r , they feast d g uttonously .

’ ’ e x and th u s k Th y ate to e cess , they dran "to excess Had n t t h r their habits of eati g been correc ed , ei h abits of drinking would have follow ed suit ihevit ably .

' is o ; isc o nnec ted This is the h t ry of drunkenne"ss It i m i Wh eneVer a m w th inordinate ali ent veness . an

' ' e fdr m t b gins to eat gluttonously, he creates hi self hat ' appetitive desire fo r stimulants which it is next to im s m i e m s b e to po sible , and in ost cases qu t i pos i l , He m Wh o n . co trol nce , it is i portant for those are

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n e m n. and me so b er and so i ter sted in having e wo n f , in J ' full possession of their reason and all th eir high er

’ m e u n Si m faculties, to give heed to the atte r of a g. ple eating always leads to sobriety in respect to the m l a use of sti u ants, while highly seasoned food aw kens im a a e the desire for st ulants , and thus cre tes an pp tite which under social conditions favorable to indulg e m m t nce is al ost sure to upset all oral considera ions , and leave the tempted and the tried to become Vic

‘ m O ur no t m 1n th e ti s . drunkards are ade saloons ; “ ’ ei they are simply graduated there . They take th r o n ta es initiation i n their homes around their w bl .

’ ’ The father and the mo th er lay in themselves the “ ‘ o a h e co h f und tion , and carry over to their c ildr n a i u i nal mu hi n n St t t o liking for sti lants . T s liki g existi g in the e th e child as a tendency , is developed und r I THE VEGETAR A N. 7

m So m table arrange ents into an actual appetite . , fro o f - m ff the eating sti ulating and exciting foods , a ecting

’ the ev O s m a i i n r es f the to ch , ar ses an irritable cond ditiio n th e eve u and r o of n r s of n trition , by eﬂex acti n o f the e and h n rves of taste , at lengt there is awak ened a longing or desire for something to overcome the u h m t feeling of exha stion , which , w en sti ulan s i n iio tic eab le m m are not use , is always , and so eti es Imperi ous In I ts demands w fo r It does not follow , ho ever , that the appetite strong drinks is attributable only to the i rritation caused to the nerves Of nutrition and taste by reas o n i h t of the use of h g ly seasoned foods . Ar icles of diet which in them selves lack the constituents to make good the waste to wh ich the nerve stru ctures are s m fﬁ ubjected in perfor ing their proper o ce , have a direct effect In awaking and producing the desire for mu a T sti l ting beverages . his cannot be otherwi se while th e staple articles of food m u se by o ur popu arem Of m I lation at large , any the , defective n those properties out of which nerve structure can be built . The nervous system in th e human body 1s a w on derf l i m m u organizat on . As the ediu by which Vital force is conserved and transmitted from the centers Of m c to . the extre ities of the nerve stru ture , it needs be repaired by’ the use of appropriate nutrition just as m m i s o f uch as do the uscles of the body . It the utmost importance that our muscles should be kept ff i e . . W m sound , full and e ective are fr ghtened if fro We n any cause they shrink and shrivel . never reaso about an equal necessity on the part of the nervous

s m . We yste to repair and keep itself good . eat to ' m keep ourselves uscularly strong , not to keep our 8 THE VE I GETAR AN .

“ l w e suffer selves nervous y healthy , and thereby l s o f feeb eness , loss of trength , loss power of endur ance ; and expose ourselves to the i ncursions of a s man c an w great variety of disease . A wear a ay his ' n o f t m erves by activity , or fromwant proper nu ri ent Of m and e the , as readily d cidedly and observably to the w m es pathologist , as he can wear a ay his uscl ; and n in b u iri whe the nerves the ody , that o ght to be their full development as big as a doubled and tw ist ed r m b own thread , co e to be not larger than a hair , m o ﬂi c e m they can no longer perfor their . Fro want of this capacity a great many diseases m arked b y de b ilit s y en ue . Physicians make one great mistake 1n treating dis o f m m m eases the nervous syste . They ad inister sti ulants and tomes 1n the vai n hope to elaborate o ut of the s ut i s reversed energy fresh supplie , when the tr h thereare no supplies left ; and where there are none in man m n to m c s nervm es Of a , sti ula ts , , and every

- c . ar e kind are contra indi ated , and if they persistently dmin n e s . a i tered , the patie t dies If , instead of thes , nu m to rimV m i tri ent the ous syste were g ven , so that the nerVe' s could be left to i ncrease I n si ze and be ré d o a e l L k st e t V t . or igor , heir p ti nts would get we l ac n u i m a s and i g; n trients , but furnished with st ul nt i t u t exc ants , still f rther exhaustion follows on heir eele di f b ness and they e. Under a great variety Of circumstances ex hibI ted In our C ommon life men feel a strong desire for stim ulants d ut . That esire grows o of the starved condi ' f u e tion o the nerves in their bodies . F rnish d with stimu ns s starvat1on I s o verc Om e a d la t , thi sense of , n for m 15 u e c the ti e a ﬁctitious result sec r d , whi h the THE VEGETARIAN. 9

t m m v h patien akes hi self belie e , and per aps his phy sician i m a b e r u is led to bel eve , y substantially ec per eo f ative ; but , like every other fallacy , this hop his m rests on nothing , and so , in the end , the sti ulants and nic s him 1ve s debilit the tO fail . If you g to thi d ate , disordered , diseased , exhausted living body , by w a Of m them of i y ail ent , eans repair ng its starved for m la is nerve tissues , the desire sti u nts lost . Under therecuperative effect of nutrients th e long m a W ing for sti ul nts disappears . hile this is true of a sick m an whose disease i s marked by nervou s de b ilit as Of a un y, it is just true an habitu l dr kard Every drunkard i s so by reasonof th e starved nerve su tis es in his body . This covers both classes of drunkards—for we have two well defined and se ar — p ate classes of 1neb 1 1ates one whose drunkenness 1s m I anc a Vice pri arily , disease only laying n the dist e , nne a m the other , whose drunke ss is a dise se pri arily 1 m t V e with reﬂex tendenc es therefro o iciousn ss . But th V1C 10ll S o r a whe er it be your your sick drunk rd , in either case he is so because of the greatly disordered e e r u diseas d , d bilitated ne ve tiss e It is now twenty - ﬁveyears SI nc e I took theposition

‘ that drunkenness Is a disease ari si ng o ut o f Wa steo f t1ssue m s r Of the nerve , oftenti e ﬁnding the cente its expression in the solar plexus o r network of nerves the a h and to that lie behind stom c , reﬂectingitself the brain and Spinal column by means of the great s m u y pathetic . Since that time there have been nder m u un y care not less than a hundred habit al dr kards ,

’ some of them with such a desire for liquor that if “ they could get it they w ould keep drunk all thetime ; ' e dr unk ardness oth rs have periodic turns of , during 1 0

th eparoxysm s of which a week or a fortni ght ” persons w as sO far go character and positi on I no nl3 two health and b een undermy pé and of all the age

' ‘ b ear u o n m S p the , proved so effectual

a f the use of tob cco tea , co fee mo n a e h m a and s lt , ﬂ s e ts i ts and d et consists of grains , frui , n he cooked , and keeps his skin clea t “ n o f m a a n a le gth ti e , ret in ppetite for r him its The desi e dies out of , and in i s as e a disgust . This disgust d cided

’ ‘ ‘ ' His t vo ph ysical . better na ure re lts of and drinking , the p ower in strengthened thereby The p roof of this c an b eSeen i m i n 1 o W at any t e ou instituti n , here we m s i persons under treat ent for inebriety . e te t m 1s m e i m nc o ntro ve ony a pl , is un for , is i patients themselves testify that they became not from any moral consideration at in m e e the , but b cause und r the plan of Which they were subjected the a ppetite died whena m an grows aw ay from a liking for

' ticular a drink and b lcoholic , has , eyond this ,

” “ ’ f r it S ri him ui te im r ob ab l o _ p ng up in ; it is, q p “ w ill use it of his own a THE VEGETARIAN

s ‘ h it at the sugge tion of ot ers . wefor a res toratiOn 1c department of our

r ht On mi l and i Child en broug up only k gra ns , fr e S i m l o i n uits and veg tables , p y co ked , leav g alone ﬂ m at m S mu o o e esh e s , condi ents and ti l narc tic tabl e m fo r beverag s , never beco e drunkards The love S m e c ultiVated i n c an r i pl food childhood never , unde an i um c b e s W t . h y c rc s an es , lo t hen the c ild has grownup his liking for S i mple fo OdS is Still active ; s i nd s I f a . e he fer the gra ns , fruits , vegetable h

en fed during . his earlydays on bread made Of n e W u bolt d heat ﬂour , the nerves of his body will have been kept so healthy that no desire for stim ulat dri nk ill him I no t ing w ever be awakened in . no w

” i u I m an c ting liq ors n a child , boy or , who has never a e er flo ui h m e t n sup fine , nor fles eats , nor condi m n To w e i m s s e ts . a ak n such an appet te he u t re ort “;

use o ne . to the of or all of these substances . Keep him w f m h m v him a ay ro t e persistently , and lea e free follo W e to stimu to his b nt , and he w ill never resort l a um H ants under ny circ stances . owever fatigued , ti d o r x th e m for re out e hausted , syste calls nourish m fo r em i is ent , not excit ent . If th rsty , the call for liquids which have nothingin them that I S stimulat A dd to h ing . this that one of t e greatest securities against the deVeIOpm ent of an appeti te for strong dr inks i s the free use of fruits ; and that you have i n rains and at u the g ﬁ the fruits e en a thoro gh protection a t th e efOr m gains desir any sti ulant . It i s net possible fOr a drunkard to eat unleavened 1 2 THE VEG ETARIAN .

m m bread , ade fro unbolted wheat flour , and uncook i m t ed fru ts such as the apple , pear , plu or aprico , or i n m any fruits growing the te perate zone , and no si x m u thing else , for onths witho t having the desire him Of for liquor substantially die in . course he ‘ m no t me no r ust use dicines , drug poisons , tobacco , S Si m pices . The plicity of such a diet is thoroughly m f t c m restorative , and co pletely e fec ual to over o e his A longing for liquor . child fed in this way is kept m i t fro any upr sal of an appeti e for strong drink . His i s blood healthy , and his nerves are well supplied with proper consti tuents ; his bones are strong ; his m i n uscles sound , cordy and full , and his body being St i o n d m perfect health , the longing for g rinks to ake m i good so ething l acking does not ex st . It seems a great pity that we go on by reason of a bad system of dietetics m aking o ur children into m m men sti ulant drinkers , aking ouryoung dependent m i n on sti ulants , to end the r career at last as dru k n a d ards , while it is so easy to preve t this , n even to recover those w ho have already fallen into this ter m v n m rible debase ent . I ha e fou d it i possible to cure r m m drunka ds w hile I allowed the to use flesh eats . I regard the use o f flesh as laying right across the f m m Of t . A way restora ion side ro its nutri ent , it contains some element or substance which so excites m i n t the nervous syste as the long run to exhaus it , i i ender i t o f nat to Wear out its t ssue , and incapable r o n m m u al acti n . In this conditio of the syste co e the h m a d n reactions whic are abnor al , n the ce the m i h o paroxys of crav ng for liquor , w ich is so str ng as m m o u to overco e all ral restraints , obscure the j dg m man ent , enfeeble the will , and turn the into a

I A A 4 THE VEGET RI N .

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A m N S t a eeting of the ational Food ociety , of L Emm a nd H m ondon , Drs . et elen Dens ore , stated m m en S a ong other things , that all hould and could n m live to be two hu dred years old . That the pri e of life should be from the eightieth to the hundredth year , and that , but for our blind disobedience of the m m laws governing nature , all hu anity could co plete e b . a c“ouple of centuri s of existence upon this glo e m i t m . I believe the i e is co ng , says Mrs Dens “ m on u ore , her recent Visit to this co ntry , when it will be as great a disgrace to be ill as to b e drunk Intemperance in food has done as much to curse h u m m b anity as the abo inable liquor ha it . N o t , only will proper food insure health , Vigor and Old age for m an beyond twice the supposed natural ’ m m a n span of life , but a wo an s beauty y be e hanced , and the period of her youthful charm s extended to r four o five score years . T m hese attractive desideratu s , however , are only to be obtained by a sweeping revolution in the c o m m o n ethics of eating . They do not hesitate to prophesy that all agric ul and t“ure and cattle breeding will gradually cease , no longer will the logic al sequence of a cereal diet denude the earth of trees , but a food which involves the planting of orchards and the restoration of the n w th e i earth to its atural beauty , ill be d et of the m co ing race . “ The head and front of the natural food advo ’ i s m an - cate s doctrine that is essentially a fruit eater , THE I VEGETARIAN . S and has merely by force of circumstances degener i ated into the ranks of the carn vora . i b m If aga n he a jure flesh and confine hi self , not to to fru iVo rian a vegetarian , but a strictly g diet , it is m his S m clai ed that , pan ( of life would be ore than o S s - h un d ubled , and that ickne s or ill ealth would be known . NOt m and u s only will the che ists dr g tores , so far as the preparation and sale of drugs and remedies are concerned , be done away with , but sending for a physician for any other purpose than for surgery will be unknown . It has been deducted from experiments made on m soldiers , and with in ates of public institutions since m the for ation of our society , that for an average

m . adult perfor ing healthful , but not excessive labor , about twenty- one to twenty - two ounces of dried food in the twenty -f our hours are requisite t o keep u p i Of e we ght and strength . this , nearly sevente n m ounces ust be carbonaceous , or heat giving ; about n four ounces itrogenous , or that which is intended o f m u for the support the usc lar action , and less than h an ounce of the p osphatic , to support the brain or m m nervous syste , and a s all percentage of salts for e f the bony structur . All of these are ound happily m co bined in fruit . i If fru t be analyzed , it will be found that a large o the portion is carb naceous like starch in bread . In 6 8 dried ﬁgs there is about per cent . of glucose , or m a twice as uch as in bread . D ates and ban nas are m m t si ilarly rich in this carbonaceous ele en . 1 6 THE VEGETARIAN .

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h d N ew Yor k Tr ibune ab I ave , just rea in the an s tract of yo ur address entitled ‘University Education t L r m m as a Founda ion for ifewo k . A ong the any excellent suggestions which the address contains are two to which I take exception The scholar especially needs brawn as well as i in a bra n ; because , order to be a schol r , he must pay the inevitable tax levied on every perpetual h ard u u u m st dent ; and also beca se the s pre e , practicable m x w ental e ertion hich is the business of his life , is directly contingent on the ﬁneness and fullness of his Le . t physical forces the student , then , give earnest u h is i s heed to the care and c lture of body . It the m m the m n ho e , the instru ent , old , and the eter al m h is Le h im co panion of soul . t know that sipping gr uel and langui dly lounging over books until his m m u m k him idnight la p b rns low , can never a e either m an L et h im a scholar or a . eat beef and mutton in en g erous slices . THE VEG ETA R-I A N , .

C onsidered from ’ any point of potential energy i m a d s wh ch food y be suppose to po sess , beefsteak m m i and utton ust necessar ly , b y reason of the ele m h m m lo w ents t at ake the up , rank . The best beef 8 o f r i steak has only about 3 per cent . nut ition Th s i is only a l ttle above the potato . It is therefore a i a m t un food wh ch , considered as li en , is altogether trustworthy ; for no hum an body can long sustain itself in good health w hich has to eat a food as staple two thirds o f which is m ade up of factitious or n i m in m adve tit ous atters , having the no power what ever to furnish material out of which b lood can be m d m an e nl a e . If any , therefore , w re to eat o y beef steak for food he would either becom e a gluttonous

‘ i i i n m su and eater , and in th s d rect o beco e sen al et i h smal gr a ly debauched , or else fa l in p y strength and m e th b e n . co e greatly feebled Beefsteak , erefore , can no t rank beside the grains The grain which w e m it 8 t . call wheat has 5 per cen . nutri ent in This, m t is m h as m co pared wi h beefsteak , ore t an uch a a1n One n h t i l m r g . pou d , therefore , of w ea w l go o e s than tw1ee as far as a pound of beef teak . But its deﬁciency in nutrition is not by any means its most obje c tionable feature when used as a staple b h as in h food y the student It , addition to w atever “ m it u li i n nutrient ele ents contains , the q a ty of exc ti g u m inc 1 eaS‘ 1n th e the nervo s syste unduly , and so g ’ h io a i i eart s act n , and thus the r pid ty with wh ch all is the vital processes are carried on . Th is a very ti i s ud fo r if strong objec on to t use by the st ent , , ever m in i s i n i i w hel e in r a hu an be g placed cond t ons , orde m i h e d in to acco pl sh the obje cts he seeks , nee s to be

m the f . the greatest co posure , whole li e force working 1 9

l organi cally and functionally w ith the least friction, so ivi h i t n and , g ng s mental faculties op por u ity to ex

’ erciiset hem seh es With o ut bodily reac tionary dist urb “ an es nt e it c , n eds c aneat beefsteak lib erally or gener h avmg the habitual pulsations of the

' hearb tenb eat ma m inute than if he lived on

’ r i i s a d w h o c an m e g a n u t , n esti at e be pu lse at eighty or seventy

‘ Seventy - ﬁve and six ty - ﬁve i nth e ac c o m s plishm ents which a student will reach in a course of ? F or o th e e is years , t degree that h subject to rapid

‘ w lll he c ein elled of nervous force , be p apidch anges of all th e solid particles of

and in th e degree of this rapidit y. wili l S i ef a c ose and evere student , a consc ous fort of th e h eart and after a little a sense of cerebral i h n and r him d squiet ; t e b y b y, a ﬂitting befo e of a feeling of mental i ncompetency and restlessness of i u i m ; sp rit , and aro sal of his pass ons, with acco pany t at i t ing insubordina ion , and last convict on hat he n m m h m N i m e . can ot co and i self oth ng is , ore detri m the m an h ental to ental faculties , of y person t an

“ ’ n a m o lec ular c an es in b un ecessarily r pid h g his ody . The h m im m e slower, w ile at the sa e t e the ore equabl h e m m the is o t eta orphosis of tissue surer a pers n , o th ei h mma h is t ings being equal , of large co nd of m m ental and oral faculties . m h avm i affect th e This ali ent , g nit the quality to so brain and the nerve centers as to produce increased ' e e o t he action of _ the h art , increas d acti n of lungs , dis o r aniz atio n b f i rapid digestion , rapid g t ssue , and frequent call for evacuation of defec ab le m aterial 0 THE VEGETARIAN .

needs t o that has _ been broken down and which be cast out , is thus one of the worst kinds of food that a f student can eat . The brain feels the e fect and m v beco es excited by it . The ganglionic ner ous sys tem w m i l m f , as ell as the sy pathet c , a so beco es a fect it and ed by . The quickening of the faculties emotions which such persons undergo by reason of new t new the though s , ideas , and enlarged associa m ex h au s tion of ideas which study begets , beco es tivel t and y in ense , therefore reaction against this exhaustion after a while either becomes im possible or ruinously destructive . S d uch food , therefore , is not desirable for stu ents , as it places their nervous system under constant m N m m i is sti ulation . ow , in whatever for , sti ulat on ub d the last thing to w hich a student S hould be s jecte . What if the stimulant were al c ohol ? Wh o would advise students to drink stimulating drink s gener o usl ? w h o i y Thousands , have been led to nvestigate the effect on brain t1ssueand nerve structure in gen n c l u eral of dri king al oholic liquors habitual y , tho gh in d d m n a c ecide oderatio , know that to drink any l o holic mixture so that the animal Spirits shall b e in constant exhilaration , is only breaking down nerve power in a body to leave it all the sooner a wreck . N o w u l i s al if this be true , as nquestionab y it , of c o h o lic m i m a no t sti ul , why y it be true of any sub m ef stance whose ordinary , legiti ate , and absolute fec t m m o ? Wh o is the sa e , though in a diﬁed degree

“ can doubt that the conscious differenc e' ineffect upon ’ n mi d i a person s stre gth , either of body or n , wh ch i beefsteak produces over good bread , is to be attr b uted m i to the sti ulus wh ch the beef contains , and

2 2 THE R VEGETA IAN . learning to do that to stand high in his class he can : im i hi not devote t e to boat ng , ﬁs ng , it d u ~ ; etc . , then is very esirable that he sho ld eat nu m n trient food which is not sti ulati g . Because , if

stim ula ed . h e mus t ex er t , exercise , for , if he do not t d/ ex c i e . cise , he will study y , and this is always bad A i gain , the beefsteak of wh ch students are advised to eat generously is largely made from the ﬂesh of

m - n v . a i als that ha e been stall fed The ox , though in m sluggish its constitution and slow in its otions , i am i has instinctively the d sposition to ro , and , l ke f a a i the bu f lo on the western pl ns , if left to itself in “

m s a . its grazing , will walk several ile in day This

‘ exercise relieve s the tissues of superab undant waste i u m . aterial Through k dneys and bowels , thro gh

' ff m are a i o ff skin and lungs , the e ete atters c rr ed But m under exercise . what ust be the condition of “ m S e an ani al which is hut up in a stall , depriv d of i and m exercise , and not infrequently of l ght , ade to '

' ‘ eat all that it pos sibly can ? I n a little w h ile its sy s tem becom es plethoric ; nature then r ec o gniz eS th e new and i m e relation , the k dneys and bowels act or “ N ar largely than before . evertheless , they cannot c ry o ff wast e m atters as fast as the accrete m atters are

m l . furnished , and so the ani a begins to grow fat This fatness is m ade u p l argely of waste material which under other circum stances w ould have been di‘ i cast out , and so lodges itself wherever there are a e h i in pos or fatty cells to hold it . It pus es tself t he o f m u between ﬁbers the scles , separating these , and thus giving to them that quality which by meat eaters is called tenderness If these little layers th mus of fat were wanting , the ﬁbers of e cles would THE VEGETARIAN .

‘ d and r m be consoli ated , so by thei co pactness be i anim al e w m . ade tough Th s thus situat d , hen loaded ’ t is the l d u wi h fat , driven to butcher s , ki le , hung p , d and e en it m a b e s d at _ . s . old , cooke , , y , by tu ents It is considered excellent meat because it is full of s and is e d i n s e venou blood t n er its ﬁber , th y being kep t apart by fa t whi ch has been depos ited between them ? He is mul But what is the effect sti ated by it , is rendered ene rgetic ; yet there is not a nerve str ucture ea r th ‘s b o dy that w ill no t suffer from this o ne excitable i u o E s condit on imposed p n it . very vital organ uffers . His m i i f He . , blood beco es deb l tated and be ouled has “ w astea e t s a - eaten the g tha the t ll fed ox , by reason of his conﬁnement , could not exhale and excrete from his syst em ; and do you commend a young m an to if ‘ h e o eat generously of this food w uld . succeed in

i ? m an e ﬂesh a meat l fe Many a , by ating this poisoned , m so loved by the gour and , so prized by gluttons , has i s m laid the foundat on of incurable di ease , fro which n m i i h im h e . t o ed cal sk ll could save 1 Take away use of fattened m eats and you take away a predisposing and largely provoking cause of m any o f the diseases m h is fro w ich our college students die. But there a m better food , vastly better for students , an ali ent that will furnish th em with a s upport to the brain an u w ex h au s d the nervous struct re , ithout inducing m m v tion ; at the sa e ti e it will pre ent exhaustion . I am not at all under the im pression that students in o u r colleges and universities have too much work to m ’ m do . A an s brain was ade to work . It cannot e l m last , howev r , if it works excited y . It ust work m h after law if it would re ain ealthy , and the law of - THE ETA I N 4 VEG R A .

m r this working de ands that , if you put it to wo k you S hall ensure repair ; and when wear and repair a re equal there need b e no Sickness nor long intervals of

’ u h h o urs o f rest . Ten hours of close st dy , wit two x of S bodily e ercise and ten hours leep , is nonetoo m m d a uch for a hu an brain to stan , provided alw ys that for the m aterial loss which it has to undergo by th e m im ma reason of its activities , there is at sa e t e ‘ eri al i T i - m t h o t repa r . h s repair can only co e r ugh

' o o f k i a w h enc o nv er ed o o f od such a nd th t , t int bl od , can supply the m aterial to the brainwhich h as b een d m an used up . The very poorest foo that a can eat whereb y the loss to his brain or to his nervous str uc m k A ture can be ade good , is beefstea nalyse it and n em n are you will ﬁnd it so . Its constitue t el e ts not m n v Yo u what you can ake good er e structure out of . m m m can ake uscle out of it , but uscular tissue and v e two ff x e and ner ous tissu are very di erent te tur s ,

i . what w ll m ake the one w ill not m ake the other . e - W o w i th hat . then , is the f od hich w ll supply u ? I t is d i w waste nervous tiss e wheat , goo wh te heat , gro und ivh o le into a n. u nbolted flour and cooked in '

m and e et so t for s that are relishable to the taste , y hat

‘ the proximate elements of the grain . Shall not be c a a u hanged . Then you h ve food that will s pply to the brain and to the nervous System all it s losses caused by the operation of the mental faculties “ Of all th e m e edibles , not one is at all to be co par d in its completeness as a food for m an w ith wheat . A “ m b ein c an in if hew not i hu an g ﬁnd it , ill spo l it by b u t i w it — e k preparation w ll use the hole of out r bar , n and — inner ri d , central starchy pulp constituent m w e m u i ele ents that ill , in exc llent easure , no r sh ‘ THE V 2 EGETARIAN . 5

n m every orga in the body . Fro the hair on his head to the nails on hi s feet there is no t an organ so m ade no t su l h ew up of substances that wheat will pp t aste . In an eminent degree it is ﬁtted to supply the m at m I n erial which the brain and nervous syste need . i m s do ng this it serves a ost igniﬁcant purpose . It preserves health b y furnishing the vari ous ti ssues with their complem ent of sU b Stanc e: It protects against disease because it keeps the nervous s trucf ‘ i n 15 a m n ture high vigor . It needful th t this depart e t i n e e r of the physical organizations be kept g od r pai , o m m d therwise the nervous syste beco es disordere , and then every other organ or class of organs inth e m f body beco es a fected . Alm ost daily som e m an of note inthis country di es x s m of apople y or paraly is , or is s itten with epilepsy S e or softening of the brain . carce an hour pass s but m m an w m m i n a so e or o an dies unti ely , dies the d wn in l me e g of adult ife dies in the very pri of life , di s just u h en the summit of life has been reached dies i v r d h em or of bil ous fe e , typhoid fever , ysentery , rh a e m i m e s me g of the lungs , rheu at s of the h art , or o other accursed diseaSe which h as been induced by the long continued use of foods wh ich have starved the s e e th e nervous structure , and thu d priv d individ ual divinel i n of his y appoin ted constitutional protect o .

‘ n e I n a I do not reaso thus without experienc . ’ twenty - ﬁve years presidency o f the largest hygienic i i in ad nst tution the world , I have h occasion to deal w ith tho usands of men who have broken downeither w for i 1n co e in hile preparing college or wh le ll ge , or th e pursui ts of life subsequent to graduation; and i n m ajori ty of these cases I have found them to b e 26 THE VEGET A RIAN .

n o all e l s - - me Wh , th ir ive , had been advised to eat ,

' n ad- e o f ﬂesh - rneats r Never-theles s a d h eat n largely , , z . , they had c ome to me with their nervous system s all e w no t m brok n do n , fro disease but from debility . Th b ra for eir ins were worth but little use , and their l m spin a and sy pathetic nerves were no better . The

' of l o w i n organs their bod es wh se play , hen health , r m f u p odu—ces the ost delight ul res lts , were all in dis o S StOmach d rder inert , liver torpid , ki neys congest d e , bowels constipated , skin dry and harsh heart ad a t i a . h p lpi at ng , lungs we k , brain useless “They tried many remedies of m any physicians and were nothing bettered but ra ther made worse o ff changing their dietetic habits , taking pressure m ot fro one part and putting it on to an her , slowly , l am steadily , sure y they c e back to health , and now fo r years the m ajor part of them has been hard at e e r w ork , fr sher and bett r as the yea s go on , living m w ith o ut eat . t , living on grains , fruits and vegetables There is a who le system of divine philosophy in this m atter of eating food which nutriﬁes the body with ut o exhausting it . The ordinary movem ents which a student i nstinc i el — th is d irec tio n t v y takes and in instinct is , and in ’ “ m m SQI VI C G ? any other directions ight be , of great w ill supply his bodily structure with the nutritive energy w hich his muscular organism demands for u He e m a healthf l ends . is not call d upon to ke phy c al c m u o si exer ise a duty, unless fro fa lty c nditions of m living in other ways , and especially in atters of a m r m at e ting , he akes his body pletho ic with waste E ters . ven then philosophy will not justify as an abstract proposition the plan and meth o d yo u sug THE T 2 VEGE ARIAN . 7

th e . gest . It only defends it on basis of expediency m m The true ethod for the student is to live so si ple ,

h ; a o f m l yet nutritively , t at severe str in usc e is not required to secure restoration of tissue or the o m thorough excreti n of it fro the body . L th m a c r e iving us si ply , all the org ni p ocess s , whe ' “ i a i so ther end ng in waste or repair , will be c rr ed on

' so f o m n minimum quietly yet e fectively , as t de a d a m i ‘ of uscularity . I nsuch cond tions the student has at use all the vital energy which his C onstitutional

‘ c a a d t Put cap abilities n furnish , n he has i at avail .

' Such a personto study and he tak es deligh t in it him h im He feed tire , and rest refreshes . needs h e m n w ich , wh n ade into blood, will build up brai and s hi w s nerve and fill m ith nerve force . For thi end the flesh of the ox is not at all to be compared to m f the flour ade out of the entire grain o wheat .

Th ir d Ha nd F o od .

Vegetarians are apt to refer to th e ﬂesh of anim als ve m as second hand food , that is , getable atter that has been eaten by cattle-a nd after being converted into ﬂesh is taken second hand (or stomach ) as food m an b u t n m for , according to an an ounce ent of a m 1 R H P c 1 s . hiladelphia o pany sent by Mr . ecker of that city the public are now to take their nourish m i N o t ent at th rd hand . content with feeding cows on distillery slops it is no w proposed to make the poor animals cannibals like their owners and feed them on n o f the grou d bodies dead horses , etc so as to fat ten them quickly and provide delica te f ood for the m m an consu ption of . 2 8 H l E VEGETA R I AN ,

M O R P P A MONITE RE ARED O FFAL . There’ are establishm ents In Philadelphia and other Eastern cities where slaughter house offal and recently dead animals are w orked i nto food for living m m 15 ani als . The raw aterial first cut up and passed t m h hrough a achine which tears it into s reds . It is e o I i n re th n b iled in benzine n a closed ron cauldro , su lting in a dry mass weighing about one - fifth of the i m original bulk . These establ sh ents pay for fresh rc tw ent - r e t cents ca asses of dead hogs y fi to fif y each ,

‘ ' cents 1 8 1 2 a t z . m at le ﬁf y to $ , horses $ to $ This erial mm m mm c o nt am s I t called a onite (fro a onia) , n the m ost availab le stateall the elements needed fo r m n es m . H for i g the tissu of the living ani al ence , m t e when fed to the growing or fattening ani al , h 18 i T e 1 process of growth rap dly accelerated . h day not far distant when this well established scientiﬁc principle will be turned to more general u se in this country .

P r unes a nd F igs .

- We f m h e San. learn ro t Francisco papers , that a I O n w f m v e man n akla d , ith his a ily , are li ing; ntirely o ne m and no on the above fruits , eal a day change . His intelligent ﬂesh eating neighbors probably thought his simplediet w as a reﬂectionon their o w n b estiality and called in the agents of the Society for Prevention of C ruelty to Children who thoroughly e investigated the C ase . They found that th eldest

‘ daughter had attained her majority ; the society

th e’ oth er could not do anything , and children were

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d at W m when the Catford event was hel esterha , but h e.[ a a won the handicap . This ye r t Toys hill he re s t e and versed his position , being ﬁrst in cra ch rac n t am seco d in handicap . A Cheltenh last year he d m ~ m i im He ro e second fro scratch a h ll cl b . has e won sev ral speed events , and still holds the tricycle record from L ondon to B rightonand back of 3 ~hours 1 8 min 2 8 . _ sec . and it is his intention to go for records l in t h e u on a sing e near fut re .

P w as i - arsley born in Br stol twenty four years ago , 13 m h e ﬁve feet eight inches height , and weighs w n n He v n i stripped ten stone six pou ds . belie es i qu et = S pins along the country roads as a means of obtaining condition .

New S o ut h Wales Veget ar ia n S o c iety A nnu a l

Meet ing.

The Executive I n presenting their report fo r the r I i yea , have pleasure n stat ng that debates have been held with v ari ous Literary and Debating S ocieties i n s a nd a u n city and suburb , lthough not so, freq et as

t e o d w i eis . i e h y w ul sh , ther good reason to b el ev the e subject of the debates h as been well received . S v e e P : ral lectures h ave b e n given by astor Corliss , Dr l Mr L i h e f . n h s o Ke logg and D acy , w ich t ubject o m h a and i food ref r s beenwell treated d scussed . In S m a s i in . A epte ber , last ye r, Mrs nnie Be ant be ng S to i n m ydney , and as she was known be full sy pathy

' o th e So ciet- u io o f m m s with the work f y a dep tat n , e ber waited upon her and presented h enwith a veryneat in‘ address accepting which , she expressed herself THE VEGETARIAN: 3 I decidedly in favor of a non - ﬂesh diet ; a ful l r eport of m her re arks appeared in the daily press .

A ME W L W TO - H0n s . . ee j A N , S . The fourth anniversary of the formationof the New S outh Wales Vegetarian Society was celebrated W m P by a banquet at the aratah Tea roo s , itt street , which was attended by a large number of members m ' m and friends . The enu was co posed entirely of i c l w b vegetarian d shes , ex e lently prepared follo ed y a i H ] . . . I S var ety of sweets and fruits Mr F atchel , i i president of the soc ety , in the unavo dable absence t l i i of he Mayor , occup ed the cha r , and , at the conclu i s v es of s on of the report , he poke of the ad antag i n m th e mm i vegetar a is over co only accepted d etary . I t m i h a was a stake , he said , to think t at vegetari ns lived solely on p otatoes and cabbage . Their dietary m r i u covered a uch wide area , and ncl ded not only e a e r vegetabl s , but all the cere ls and ev ry va iety of

ui as f m “ He fr t , as well tea , co fee and ilk repudiated t he idea that by elim inating ﬂesh - meat from their i m en m t and d et ary lost energy and en al force , held that th e experi enceof all vegetarians conclusively

r e i . did p ov d the contrary . But wh le they not go so far as to contend that m en c ould not keep in health and S r on h t m t ength ﬂes diet , hey did hold that eat w as s s n not e e tial to health and strength . Their per sonal I ec o rds Showed that vegetari ans were healthier m m v than eat eaters , as , a ong other ad antages , they I an none of t h e risks inseparable from the eating of ﬂes h - m hi l mm eat , w ch was notorious y a co on vehicle o f disease d fro m w hic h e , j ‘ a anger the veg tarian diet " m ary was wholly free . The re ainder of the even in w a in m g s spent social fashion , usical contributions i W t be ng rendered by Mrs . Baker , Misses righ and L ouden , and Mr . Massey. 2 THE VEG ETA Rl A N 3 .

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What relation has a particular diet to disease ? The present writer has had wide experience in the matter and brings facts which he knows to the full glare of public opinion . —a m f m First , there is epilepsy ost fear ul alady . To s ee a poor sufferer struggling with every limb m m l and foa ing at the outh , and possib y, if due care his n is not taken , biting through to gue , involving ' f eriod is severe su fering for a long p , sad enough still worse to see the gradual break down of body m and ind ending in death . A R - G ccording to the report of the egistrar eneral , 1 8 6 epilepsy caused 5 3 deaths in the year 7 , exactly m m E 445 ore than s all pox caused in that year . xcept se uela congenital cases , and a very few others , the q m ' of so e severe disease , these are all the consequences 4 THE VEGETARIAN .

L m m L of a flesh diet . Dr . a be , an e inent ondon m physician , so e seventy years ago published the m o f state ent that in every case epilepsy , not con genital , the patient had only to cease eating flesh of every sort and drink pure o r distilled water and the S So evil hould cease at once . we have invariably n fou d it . Three cases which lately presented themselves w mm N m m anufac ere i ediately cured . A ottingha turer wrote to m e I have a daughter twenty - seven m years old , apparently a healthy wo an with a ruddy countenance , who for the last seven years has been f Sh e fearfully a flicted with epileptic fits . had been in London last year ( 1 8 7 7) for eight months under the care of but—as in all previous attempts m edical assistance has not been of the least benefit . m n I met me This orni g Mr . and he wished to m e h O e write to you . If you can only give a ray of p ” ou y will confer , etc . , etc . The reply was decisive and consolatory : Sh e shall never have another fit o f o u d epilepsy if y only withdraw all flesh foo , and give her at first a careful vAegetable diet , as laid down here , and pure water s in every other case , the mm m cure was i ediate and final . Many si ilar cases m could be detailed, but they all present the sa e testi m — in m . ony instant relief , and no ore fits In one stance a severe s ufferer said he had all the usual ‘ m feelings before a fit , and felt certain one was co ing m l on and feared that the re edy , then followed on y a l m m few days , was likely to fai ; but the sy pto s

gradually passed away , and he never had another fit . Ho w s m , trivial all cleansing of ewers se“e s then , to the c leasing o f stomach and veins and the dome of N THE VEGETARIA . 3 5 thought from the filth of the Slaughter - ho use ! h o ff ea Then , again , paralysis , w ich carries the f r m m to ful nu ber of persons , see s be subdued m m T i s in the sa e anner . here the historical case of ’ m W nS Dr . Ada Ferguson . It is detailed in atso P P ractice of hysic , and in the preface of one of ’ Sir W S S at S - five alter cott novels . The doctor , ixty years of age , when lecturing to his class , was seized He m h is tu with paralysis . was carried ho e by s dents . He m then sent for his friends , Dr . Back , the che ist m m h (not a doctor“of edicine , or his fate ight ave P m an been sealed) . Turn a ythagorean , , were the He V words of his friend . did turn egetarian at once . He recovered the use o f his limbs and of all his faculties, and lived a hale and hearty vegetarian for Sir W thirty years after w ards . alter Scott says that afiec ted his venerable appearance , his plain dress , him m o f m and his ruddy health , put in ind a Fle ish peasant . We t will next call attention o scarlet fever . In a report that we have just read o f a severe outbreak o f scarlet fe ver the dampness o f the house was pointed Of m out as the originating cause . course da pness m w is a great evil , but it had about as uch to do ith originating an attack o f scarlet fever as it had to do “ G with the crash of the lasgow City Bank . The result of a poison which arises directly from the vile habits 1 8 6 of society , it killed persons in 7 , the last — return that we have more than sevenfold the m o r tality from smallpox from this one crime of the evil E l W m habits of nglish ife . hat a ockery is the visit N e and of the Inspector of uisances , whose nos eyes are not o ffended when the direst evil in relation to 6 3 THE VEGETARIAN .

o r m o r disease is not seen s elt within his intelligence , and even not in the least under his power ! ex a It is not easy , indeed scarcely possible , to g ff f um m gerate the fearful e ects o rhe atis . It is ’ credited in the Registrar s Report (for 1 8 7 6) w ith m killing hu an beings ; but these ﬁgures , large W sum as they are , are but a triﬂe to the hole of the H evil . eart disease kills and beyond con tro vers m m y, rheu atis and its allied evil , gout , pro

- ir o f duce two th ds these deaths . Certainly these

deaths at least , are the result of the fearfully o f E m erroneous diet nglish en . The origin of rheu m atism is as obscure to most people as is the origin e of scarlet fev r . a There is a re dy , though delusive , excuse for rheu

m atism m m . , rheu atic fever , and rheu atic arthritis m N o . It is attributed to wet , r da p , or to a cold ow m neither wettings , nor da pness , nor a cold can pro m m duce rheu atic fever or rheu atic sufferings . The m N blood ust ﬁrst be acid . ature struggles with the o ff evil , and throws the acid with the perspiration ,

which is strong enough to dissolve gold , as the black ’ m ark on a lady s neck under her gold chain testiﬁes . m m But at last a chill co es fro a wetting , or a rush ing from a heated room and standing or riding in the m air at a low te perature , and there is no escape for m the acid fro the blood , and then a fever burns and within , probably a weakness is set up that nothing m ever re oves . A r cid blood , then , is the o igin and sustaining cause u m ff But ? of all rhe atic a ections . what produces it a d m Go m Unnatural n i proper diet . to the sha bles and apply a b it of test paper to the juice of the ﬂesh

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We candidly admit that if it could be Shown that the early English—living as they did almost wholly on ﬂesh and beer—were as healthy as the people b e m R m fore the , the Britons and the o ans , or as our

i - V m populat on of to day , then our egetarian argu ents o r would be useless fallacious , and our notions of c corre t diet be quite absurd . But a knowledge of the

f - - su ferings of these beef eaters and beer drinkers , of the plague that never left them while they lived on salted flesh , with few or no vegetables , and drank beer freely (for really beer then , with a nearly ex e m lusive diet of salted and fresh flesh eat , was a greater evil than it is now to any one who can keep his blood alkaline with vegetables) would appal the e m m Ve e fl sh eater , and confir the argu ents of the g tarian . The Rom ans were an abstemiou s people We search their teachings on agriculture in vain to find

- m a single allusion to stall fed cattle for hu an food . O xen were beasts of burden . They ploughed the lo u hm an ' th o u h t land , and the p g g as little of eating their toiling partners as of eating their h arness or m m We i ple ents . read of rich people having aviaries , that they could now and then eat a small but fat i bird , and ﬁsh ponds to occasionally vary the r diet with ﬁsh ; but the mass of the people Were p rac ti i i S o V n . cally egetarians , and glor ed vegetables much was this the case that the aristocratic families m m ‘ t were na ed fro ve ches , beans , and other such T e m h viands . h Ro ans were in consequence a healt y

h n r n Th ec sew as w idel differ ent T eRom a s . i . e th eea ly Rom a s . a y a a s m m l T f r m er w s h e t later age, a Qu eenB oadic ea see s to i p y . h e o a t age o f Ro m anVi go r ; th elatter of Ro m an dec ay . THE VEGETARIAN . 9

W m people . hen we dig up the re ains of their drug ’ S m men gists hops , or houses of edical , we ﬁnd that h ad n m doctors and quacks ostru s to cure eye diseases , but scarcely anything else . O ur British people whom they invaded were to o a m l ae an bste ious peop e . C sar tells us that the

Britons had a great variety of poultry , but that they m b m fo r m m never ate the , and only red the a use ent r and for thei eggs . Then we have that brave British Bo nduc a Queen Boadicea , or , who harangued her R m t“roops and aroused their co“urage against the o ans . E Sh e very bush , said , gives us food and every R m brook drink , but these o ans require cooked food

. A and houses to live in , etc British grave was m a nd m opened so e years ago , a ass of seeds was m found where the sto ach had been . They were the So seeds of the wild raspberry . that this early Briton m i o ff had ade his d nner the bushes , and had been killed before he had digested the fruit . But that the A and S o ur Jutes , ngles , axons who invaded coasts and settled on our soil fed as coarsely as savages is ff m nearly or quite true , and they su ered fearfully fro disease in consequence . They filled the country f m S with su fering , and ade in every solitary pot a - m m lazar house . A ong the the pestilence was not S o occasional , but constant . it continued on through N m b e the or an invasion , and even after they had m E m co e nglish , fro throne to cottage , and only de c lined as vegetables became a large proportion o f their daily food . Many imagine leprosy to be some obscure disease L alluded to only in the Bible . eprosy was also a A m S disease of the Middle ges , ore widely pread and 0 E RI N 4 THE V GETA A . more fearful in its results than any other in ancient m m m or odern ti es . It is probable that the worst for o f leprosy in early jewish h istory w as that now f la / ma m ” m m o f known as p as . The ilder for Jewish éo/za k leprosy , called , was neither severe nor con ta io u s g . Leprosy in England and Europe arose gradually after the destruction of the Roman Empire as fast as barbarism spread with its u ncleanness of personal n m habits , and its resort to a i al food and beer as l i i near y exclus ve articles of daily d et . In all ancient l t towns it was ear y found necessary to erec hospitals , f and retreats , and churches , for those a flicted with We E h leprosy . have in ngland now ospitals built i for lepers so ancient that the r origin is unknown , h e m H G t St . such as Bartholo ew ospital at loucester , I t and others . is known that there were at least L h OSpitalS in Europe for leprosy alone . ouis I I V . of France left legacies to over hospitals for e h lepers in his country . W ave extant a touching account of a knight of vast wealth and influence , m Am m h is na ed iloun , expelled fro castle to be a m S h h is beggar , al ost in ig t of vast possessions and stately hom e ; for the Normans in France V i rtually w l m m outlawed , as ell as expel ed fro their ho es , all lepers , and , as soon as their influence was established i n E m ngland , they extended their sanitary easures and benevolent enterprise to lepers . H E o —t h e Wi m ugo , or ud Dapifer steward for llia — the Conqueror having received from h im vast pos in E i en sessions land in ssex , built , or rebu lt , and

' Ma dalen Ho s ital dowed a St . Mary g p for lepers in The i Colchester . hosp tal for lepers , dedicated to the 1 THE VEGETARIA N . 4

m i E o f ah sa e sa nt in the city of xeter , is unknown ti u it m q y. Bartholo ew . bishop of that city and dio cese ( 1 1 6 1 finding its usefulness limited for u f m want of f nds , and the su fering of lepers unli ited , e it c P endow d with onsiderable wealth . ope Celestine m h e 1 1 2 . t III granted or confir ed a charter in year 9 , h da and the c arity exists to this y . H A t ubert , rchbishop of Can erbury , held a synod W m s 1 2 0 0 out at est in ter , in the year , to carry the decree of the Co uncil of L ateran ( 1 1 7 2 ) to build a m for nu ber of churches solely for leprous people , they had long been expelled from all parish churches . w f They ere to have priests , o ficers and graveyards y m h exclusivel for the selves . T ey were released at the same time from all claim s for titles for their land c S o m o ur ah or attle . careful and deter ined were c esto rs to remove from sight and smell every leper that a law w as early in existence to enforce their re m oval out of towns and villages to a solitary place .

in - D e The writ is our ancient law books , entitled L z’ cw s o A il/oz w zdo p , and it is fully stated by Judge - H N a ture B r et/ mm E Fitz erbert in his . King dward n in S III . , findi g that pite of the old law leprous per sons were concealed in houses inhabited by other mm L persons , gave co and to the ord Mayor and S f m m o f heri fs to ake procl“a ation in every ward the b t le rous in city and its su urbs hat all p persons ” habiting there should avoid within fifteen days next , etcA. , etc . t the city of Bath , a bath , with physicians and a ttendants , was provided and endowed exclusively — m for lepers and the endow ents are still paid . That n ffi the bath was occasio ally e cacious , in connection 2 THE 4 VEGETARIAN .

m with i proved diet , we have sure evidence ; for one leper in late days had ﬁxed to the bath a mural tablet W m G to say that illia Berry, of arthorpe , near Mel w n L ton Mo bray , i the county of eicester , was cured

le ro s ' b o f o d of a dry p y y the help G and the bath . 1 7 3 7 The sim ple fact of the introduction of the growth of vegetables into our islands was sufficient to do for the people what all the art of the doctors could not do —improve their health and rem ove pestilence from m m n a ongst the . If we read the a cient Chronicles of Island we find that beer and flesh meat were the m and mm be only viands na ed co ended Indeed , the a zr e was honored the m ost w h o had the largest ket tle to boil flesh and the largest brewing apparatus . In England it was much the same —beef and beer m and bread were the three staples of hu an food . It w as H not until the end of the reign of enry VIII . that any salads , carrots , turnips , or other edible roots E im were produced in ngland . The wealthy had ported vegetables before then from Holland and

Flanders . Queen Catharine , when she wanted a S m salad , was obliged to send for it , by pecial essen m ger to the Continent . By a statute ade in the H V bee ar /e reign of enry III . f and p were to be sold - u mutton o ra l a h alf at a half penny a po nd , and at i m farth ng extra per pound . Butchers were co pelled to sell at th ese prices between O ctober 2 4 and the t ri ‘ m m nativity of S . Joh . The custo of salting eat t N m before the festival of S . Martin ( ove ber for m winter and spring consu ption , was universal amongst all classes in our islands and over the Con tinent E One m of urope . fact illustrates the custo THE I VEGETAR AN . 43

: m W i m and its supposed necessity Tho as ill a son , of m 1 6 the county of Cu berland , who died in 7 4, left e certain lands , the r nts“of which forever were to be mutton o r 71m ! bestowed on the poor , in at Martin m as m yearly , when ﬂesh ight be bought cheapest , m ic/elect laun ‘ u to be by the p , or g p and dried , that they might have someth ing to keep them within m m doors on stor y days . The far ers then , having no roots or clover , could fodder through the winter m t SO only a s all s ock of cattle , late calves and weakly yearlings and surplus stock of all sorts were sent to m arkets , fairs , and butchers , and sold for what they would bring . E mm The nglish people then , in co on with all E i others on the Continent of urope , l ved for the s greatest part of the year on salted ﬂesh , with carcely any vegetables Their blood was thus deprived o f — the necessary alkali the vehicle for conveying o x y gen to purify it , and to burn up the carbonaceous m l ateria s of the food , and deprived likewise of the material that excludes from the venous sys tem the m excess of lactates of li e , etc . so that nearly every power given to the blood by nature to keep m an t m an m heal hy was destroyed , or put aside by hi self d m to please his epraved appetite , or fro want of knowledge or industry to cultivate garden vege tables . m N Thus , erely approaching the teaching of ature , in at the m an E rel ion to true diet of , cleansed ngland E E and urope of leprosy . xtend the good diet in the ’ — line of Nature s teaching let m an feed only on the m — diet his constitution was ade for and then , with due i d cleanl ness of skin and other surroun ings , . THE 44 VEGETARIAN .

m m f m L s allpox could no ore a ﬂict ankind . ikewise m m m m i i rheu atis , rheu atic fevers , rheu atic arthr t s and m and bladder diseases , any other evil visitations would no m ore afﬂict hum anity if exclusively vege table diet were generally partaken . Thus also the Whole o f the ailments that follow necessarily on acid blood and the presence of various lactates soluble in c ff such acid blood would be ut o . For no Vegetarian living fairly on fruits and green vegetables and po tato es o f , with the ground seeds the cereals and i ground or unground pulse , can have ac d blood , nor m f “ can he therefore have rheu atic a fections , or any disease depending on like conditions . are u Such a few of the evils of an nnatural diet . N o w for thine own sake and the welfare and pros erit O p y of all people , attend , reader , and bend thy m r fo r t “ind and appetite to nature and t uth , hey are th e u the brightness of the everlasting light , nspotted mirror of the power of Go d and the im age of His ’ ’ —Ex trac ts r om his w r itin s ublzs nm in goodness . f g p _ var ious a ers p p .

S p o r t o r C r im e.

We have received permission to publish the follow V ing letter , written by a well known egetarian to a niece and nephew Spending a vacation i n the mount nW i s Wh o ains . If all childre ere blessed w th relative would instruct them in the ways of peace and virtue instead of crime and bloodthirstiness there would be less acts of violence and murders for our criminal —ED courts to investigate .

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New York just at present thousands of the little children of the poor in the closely packed tenement houses are also doomed to die for want of air and m m e co fort . But what Opinion would you have of , if I wrote yo u that in order to have some pleasant m pasti e , fun and sport I was sallying forth , under cover of darkness , in these districts , and , baiting a little tot with a piece of candy , would suddenly thrust a sharp hook do w n its throat and enjoy its painful gasping and wriggling death struggle until n m P it falls dyi g on the pave ent “ W o u me M ould y address then y Dear Uncle , or would you not rather feel justiﬁed in addressing me Yo u vile murderer P W m hat pitiful and iserable beings are you , any ih m way , that going to such a beautiful ountain place for recreation yo u cannot ﬁnd it in any other way than by scattering torture and destruction m a ong other creatures , who enjoy their existence perhaps as much or even more so than you do y our

o w n. E m Do you know , llie , why that deer you entioned P getting a glimpse of. in the woods ran away There was no other creature around to frighten it away , but recognizing you a s a m ember of the hum an m w m m fa ily , ho ever s all , it thought that you ight m have one of those death dealing achines , a gun and delight in taking its life , just for the fun of it . P In Central ark , you are aware , these graceful S m creatures have no hyness , but co e right close to m lick our hands , their big elting eyes expressive with gratitude for a piece of cake or a peanut . In THE VEGETARIAN . 47

that place at least they need no t fear o ur savage in inc t st . Much thanks for your kind invitation to come up S d A s m i and pend a few ays . uch as I should l ke the am place , I afraid we would see very little of each H m other . aving all the year received ore than dand ﬁed enough of y city folks , I should visit the m m To m h far ers and watch their work , roa like t rough m o f the woods and ountains , but singing instead barking , and observe with delight the great variety o f m o f and richness ani al and plant life , which we are ignorant , dwelling in cities . I had recently a few such delightful days and experienced some funny m incidents in a little tra ping tour in the Catskills . Yo u mm W m call yourself a great swi er , alter , y ’ o u ? Ho w o u ? Yes boy , don t y does this strike y terday I swam across the Hudson from the foot o f 1 8th m m 5 street to Jersey Shore . About idstrea I encountered some strong current Which carried me m P V m n o f al ost to leasant alley , then ca e a cha ge h Lee m tide w ich forced me up to Fort . I swa con tinuo u sly about three and a half miles i n about one hour , and just felt a little tired touching the Jersey h w h o me s ore side . The friend in the boat piloted across felt that only a big beefsteak could satisfy his exertion in sculling and could not help wondering that a supper of two cheese sandwiches and a glass of milk on top of a light breakfast in the morning l m cou d satisfy the exertion on y part . W s ith kindlie t regards for all , yours forever , as f ever a fectionate uncle , W EO S C . G . BRUN I K 48 THE VEGETARIAN .

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K ill No t A t A ll.

A m re uir ll refor s are of slow growth , and those q ing self denial of their advocates instead of offering m aggrandize ent , certainly do not have their pace a t I f ccelera ed thereby . we preached self indulgence and promised immunity from the penalties imposed by the laws of nature on all who violate her laws , vegetarians would be numbered by th e million in m stead of the thousand . The only refor which achieved immediate success was that inaugurated by M m v ma o f Mah o me aho et , and whate er we y think tanism i t at the present day , was undoubtedly a great advance over the system s it overthrew at the c mm m m f o ence ent . Maho et o fered his followers the wealth of the heathens they destroyed and the imme diate delights of a sensual paradise to those w h o fell m N in the atte pt . o wonder that the advance was rapid and has continued and will continue to advance m so long as any uncivilized people re ain on earth . 0 THE 5 VEGETARIAN .

- sacriﬁc e Jesus Christ preached a religion of self , of h m love instead of hate , of u ility instead of glory ; teaching his followers to love instead o f hate their m w as S ene ies . The advance correspondingly low , and the greater part of the progress was owing to his followers living their own savage lives while i O professing his relig on . And it is nly after nearly nineteen hundred years that people in a sort of ten t ative way are beginning to believe what they have m We always preached ; that it is a cri e to kill . pre sume the m ajority of the people always believed that it was wrong to kill their friends or even their fellow m n b ut in country en for gai , of course this did not e lude privileged people , kings and princes , who , until the last hundred years or so , varying slightly f in di ferent countries , always had the prerogative of i killing their infer ors , with or without cause ; and killing one another , provided certain rules were m w ar carried out and for alities observed . But , glo rious m m l war , covered by the na e of patriotis , stil retains its place in the affections and the hearts of m the ultitude , even though the people have been cheated by their rulers out of their just Share m men of the proceeds . In old ti es all were about equal at the game ; none had special ad i vantages except n brute strength and ferocity . Every m an starting out in th e ranks had th e chance

~ fh of returning a leader , that is , provided he was su ciently bloodthirsty and was fortunate enough to save m th e his life ; but ore than this , in good old days every soldier had the pleasure o f seeing the m en he murdered and stealing their property . This is all changed now ; the leaders have been studying since THE 1 VEGETARIAN . 5

m boyhood the trade of urder , and have acquired such advantages in this line that the private has no chance to catch up . Then , although he kills whole fis the sale , the private deprived of all pleasure of his villainous trade and does not often get the chance o f men m . A seeing the he urders nd as for plunder , he would be punished if he stole a cent ; his employers W to take it all . hile in addition all this , his chance m No of getting killed hi self is steadily increasing . wonder that the murder trade is no t as popular a s it used to be . The best men in all civilized countries are begin ning to talk of arbitration as a better way o f settling international difﬁculties , and the best newspapers are deprecating the efforts of the unthinking who are doing their best to keep up the bloody ideas o f the Evenin Post O 6 past . The g of ctober , writes as fol lows in an editorial . the delight the animal man takes in killing m m I n e bers of his own species on a great scale . t S to fac , ince the dawn of civilization there is no art the cultivation of which he has devoted as much time and money as the art of killing his o w n fellow - crea s w N o m th e tures holesale . other ani al has shown m s allest disposition in that direction . There is nothing wonderful in the bloodthirst as displayed m A m in the assacres of the lbigenses , the assacres in m O m ost riental wars after victory , assacres follow m of ing a successful assault , or assacres on account n - religion , like those in Turkey , whe we have to day m men m of illions of in the , ost civilized parts the world spending some of their golden years learning m to kill their fellow en dexterously and effectively . E 5 2 THE VEG TARIAN .

N a m us y, the legislation a ong all over the country in favor of hoisting ﬂags over school houses was gen erally intended to inspire in the children a desire to in m re kill settle ent of international disputes , and

Spect for the killing art . There has not been in the history of philology anything so wonderful as the way in which the term “war ” has been successful in disguising what the m War m ter designates . is really one of the ost a shocking , barbarizing and brut l scenes in which m an m is the actor , but the ter has been successful in representing it as s imply a heroic sacriﬁce on behalf ’ o f m one s country , in turning attention away fro the m an m an m who kills to the who is killed , fro the power which attacks to the power which defends it m m self , and in concealing co pletely the awful isery inﬂicted o n the non - comb atants and the great de of N o struction property . operations of lion , or ' e o r o r tig r, wolf , hyena approach it in atrocity .

Moreover , in all descriptions , scientiﬁc and other , of m an m of l as an ani al , this love ki ling his fellows is to m m e never alluded , although it is his ost arked p culiarit o y. If an individual , in fact , for any purp se as acted in civil life a warrior acts on the ﬁeld , he ul wo d be considered a wretch unw orthy to live , an m o f m ene y the hu an race , but saying he did it in “ ” m m war is a co plete answer to all criticis .

' There is no thing new in these facts ; every think ing man has argued it out in his own mind and then put it aside declaring that while the rest of the world is so savage we must keep up with the times in r which we live and be prepared for the wo st . This ma m m en y be sensible , but it will never ake one

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m cha pions of the past , who could not battle three - lo c om o successive years . The body of a rider is a m o m otive , but an inﬁnitely sensitive l co otive . If o u h eat it to o mu h to o m y c , if you burn uch coal , it explodes ‘ Someo f h e Ci rc ui t Chas ers in this country who to h m e s expect enjoy t e s lve after each contest , and ha ve an idea that they will be able to keep up the ’

w e e . pace indeﬁnitely , ill be int rest d in Morin s case

Th e A dva nc e o f C iviliz a t io n.

A t v arious times w e h ave stated t h at ﬂesh - eating man m r O c o n is a natural urde er , and nly fear of the i i quences prevents his k lling h s fellow citizens . T o m New Y un he f llowing extract fro the ork S , o t fully b ears u our assertion . m fﬁ i n m L t . Le s G a e ieu i t , a er n o cial the Ca

‘ He had taken advantage ‘of thealmost unlimited

' pow erC onferred on him and of the fact that b e . was so far from the restraints of civilization, and he had been guilty of the most unspeakable atrocities to ff ward the native population . For the slightest o ences th e natives were ﬂogged in a m anner that w ould have been unpardonable had they been the greatest i A m W crim nals . hippopota us hip was always used , and if the poor creature survived his punishment it

was a miracle . “ h e The chief indignities ; owever , wer heaped t e R r upon h women . egarded as little highe than ani m r als, they were not even treated with the espect m e m c due hu an b ings , u h less creatures of the THE VEGETARIAN . 55

One o f th m m gentler sex . efavorite a use ents of the ’ ffi Leist s to m o cers in following , was for a circle i m about a group of nat ve girls and force the , with e s th lash if nece sary , to dance naked in their pres o m e m ence . C plete xposure of such facts was ade in t r eu rt P m b r c L he of justice at otsda , efo e whi h eist P n w a s . o arraigned , ublic feeling ran high the sub ec t L m e r j , but eist was rely cashie ed , though his s e e e c ri m es des erved a v r r penalty . To us Americ ans i n Germany the most interest in r of f m e o f g featu e the a fair was that a large nu b r , Ge m m in the r an newspapers and agazines , discuss the m ~m li it ing atter , ade ght of . They actually sought to condo ne the offence by mos t shameless m m C mo argu ents . They aintained that the ode of rality proper for the crowded cities o f Europe was

out of plac e in the wilderness of Africa . They said that it was foolish to punish o r even condemn in m mm r G A . er any, acts co itted in f ica They even pleaded ennui and the imperative necessity of amuse ment as excuses for the German officers A s for the idea that Leist and his men had been criminally m h . o L cruel , t at was absurd , for those wh eist had e ‘ ’ abused , wer , after all , only niggers . They had simply assisted nature in her work o f exterminating a lower species ; they h ad exempliﬁed the law of the ' t e S m s survival of h ﬁttest . uch argu ent were every d wh“ere rea and endorsed . Those who most openly objected to the expres sion of such ideas were not persons w h o were prom inent G m m no t in the er an govern ent . They were m s v the me bers of the solid , substantial , con er ative m S parties , but the younger and ore radical pirits , 6 THE V E A 5 EG T RI AN .

‘ w h o h taken u SOI ‘ tS Of a s c ave p with all J soci li ti here ‘ S nd de th e r o f th e eo I t ies , a i as about ights p ple w s h no th e s o - la - ab i a t ey , and t l w going , w ding citi w o d a n m e at the im zens , h held in ign tio e tings t e the ' a i t L r d i f cts n he eist case We e evelop ng .

S a mp le Veget a r ia ns .

A native of Maine (France) informs meth at i n his ’ grandfather s time the peasants of that department enjoyed far longer life and more rob ust health than th epresent generation who have exchanged the sim ple sustenance of former years fo r a dietary consist n o f m a i g largely sti ul ting drinks and animal food . Examples of this kind are not far to seek and might m e a be indefinitely ultiplied , whether with r g rd to mm m races , co unities , or fa ilies . If from national generalities we pass to the cOn sideration o f individual experience of the Pyth ago rean system, we are m et by such an enormous mass of m evidence as would require volu es to chronicle it . Let n m ffi a few i stances , chosen fro thousands , su ce ; the limi ts of this little treatise preclude more numer ous citations . t L Heathfield w ho The celebra ed ord , defended the fortress of Gibraltar with consumm ate skill and h is persevering fortitude , was well known for hardy m He m habits of ilitary discipline . neither ate ani al food nor drank wine , his constant diet being bread V i e and egetables , and his dr nk , wat r . ed . , i g My health , says Mr Jac“kson a dist n uish surgeon in the British army, has been tried ? in all

‘ m an b he m c ways and cli ates ; d y , t aid of te peran e A N THE VEGET RIA . 5 7

and I Out m hard work , have worn two ca paigns and d o ut no m probably coul wear another . I eat ani al no m S o f food , drink wine , alt liquors , nor pirits any n no and . w ki d I wear flann”el , regard neither ind i no r r a n . , heat nor cold P L w rofessor a rence knew a lady who , having adopted a vegetarian mode of life was rem arkable he m o f for her activity and strength . S ade nothing m w walking ten iles , and could ith ease walk twenty . S h e m had two children , and nursed the for about m hi m She twelve onths each , during w ch ti e took a s only vegetables and fruit , with distilled water drink . Both children were fine and healthy . Another lady (the wife of one o f the founders of the Vegetarian Society in England) abstained from and flesh and all intoxicants for thirty years , during m that ti e , gave birth to fifteen children , fourteen of whom she nursed herself and yet remained young and active . a m The celebr ted refor er of the eighteenth century , W e to L 1 John esl y , wrote the Bishop of ondon in 7 47 , of h a that , following the advice Dr . Cheyne , he d — u - m given p the use of flesh eat and wine , and that m m to Go d de fro that ti e , thanks , he had been m livered fro all physical ills . I n m O 1 8 8 the onth of ctober , 7 , a Jewish rabbi m H G m G - S na ed irsch utt an , died at ross trehlitz at 1 08 He the advanced age of years . had been a veg etarian R G m for half a century . abbi utt an was pre Em o f G m w h o sented to the peror er any , , after a m an re long conversation with the old , respectfully c ei ed v his blessing . THE R VEGETA IAN .

Th e Veget a r ia n Tu r k .

I observed , on a late journey to Constantinople , m i s w h o that the boat en or rowers of the ca que , are th e n h perhaps the best rowers in world , drink ot ing but water ; and they dr ink that profusely during the mm m d h o t months of the su er . The boat en an r a of C onstantinc le i wate c rriers p are dec dedly , in m men i n E y Op inion , the finest urope , as regards h l m e their p ysica develop ent , and they are all wat r m a s drinkers ; they y take a little herbet at times . Their diet is chiefly bread ; now and then a cucum b er d m , with cherries , figs , ates , ulberries , or other fruits which are abundant there ; now and then a

little ﬁsh . From the day of his irruption into Europe the Turk has always proved him self to be endowed with A m singularly strong vitality and energy . s a me ber Of W E a arlike race , he is without equal in urope in a He he lth and hardiness . can live and ﬁght when His soldiers of any other nationality would starve . S m excellent physique , his i ple habits , his abstinence m m fro intoxicating liquors , and his nor al e him t di t , enable to suppor the greatest s m and to exi t on the scantiest and Si plest food . O ma m L o w stature is the exception in the tto n ar y. These men of herculean form are endowed with fab lous h n sobriety ; t ey drink no intoxicating drinks , and m m seldo touch eat . Some of the men among the Turkish excavators m sand were re arkably adroit in throwing up the , which they would cast up even as high as twelve m feet . Their food was of the si plest kind ; coarse 5 9

bread and a little salt ﬁsh or olives , black raisins and m t a m C O io uS so e frui occasion lly , acco panied by p u draughts of the best water they co ld obtain , consti d T tute . o their breakfast and dinner their supper , e m m m l m as b ing the ost su ptuous ea , so e delicacy ,

k - o such as thistle broth , boiled thistle stal s , snail s up , n da delion , and other wild vegetables , were often W u u added . ith this fr gal diet their strength was n w usually great , as the fatigues hich they endured , in m t e spite of the unhealthy cli ate , and the grea w ights i n m on which they carried their ar s or their backs , fﬁ The m su ciently proved . Turkish porters in S yrna often carry from four hundred to s i x hundred pounds o n m one weight their backs , and a erchant day me o ne o f m en Wh o u pointed out to his , he ass red m e m m n , had carried an enor ous bale of ercha dise weighing eight hundred pounds up an incline into an

upper warehouse . Sm no o r - In yrna , where there are carts wheel car ria es i i g , the carry ng bus ness falls upon the shoulders o f m a o the porters , who are seen in great nu bers b ut the wharves and docks and in the streets near the - S m a nd water ide , where they are e ployed in lading e men of unlading vess ls . They are stout , robust , m o ne great uscular strength , and carry at load , upon ﬁ t m a pad tted to heir backs , fro four hundred to — P a i iet eight hundred pounds The erfect W y nD . 6 0 THE VEGETARIAN .

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- S econd VicePr esident G U SWICK . , EORGE BR N Tr easurer S Y A . T M . , CHARLE MON GO ER H H Secretar A T U I D . y , R R AV LAN Regular Meetings field on thef our th Wednesday in themontlz at 2 est z ud str eet 7 W 4 . “ RD R 5 3 EGULAR MEETING . A m V S New t the eeting of the egetarian ociety , Y h A H 2 W 2 nd ork , eld at Fifth venue all , 7 est 4 S S m 2 treet , epte ber 3 , the discussion of the topic “ ’ Vegetarianism from a Wom an s Standpoint w as i qu te general and interesting . G L uk sch V o f Vca Miss Marie . , of ienna teacher o l ’ m S s So the i usic , sang helley Love ng and Mag c ’ Song . A r of theV o n l circula egetarian Federal Uni . re at ing the Spread of the m ovement as a part of their e a r d w s . work for the Jubilee y ar , ea I n the discussion attention Was called to the many ’ of V r m t Wo m 5 and relations egeta ianis o an life work , Sh e a m t as ppears as the istress of servan s , the pro d of m the vi er eals , the housekeeper , cook and the m h ot er . It w as stated that the very large increase in the consumption of cereals was due to the spread of veg etarianism and r m , that a still greate refine ent in our meals would be had by the use of flowers both fo r

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m - need but a few inutes of the fire . Meat eaters eat something besides meat ; a properly constituted meal o I o f c nsists of 4 parts of carbon (starch) , and part meat ; still we Americans especially do not pay suf a c ient m fi attention to vegetarianis , which would be more generally practiced if the idea of the preserva n A tio of the health could be strengthened . gain , there are parasites attached to vegetables to offset m m s the ger s in the eats , of which the vegetarian m talk so uch . S m h of Mr . cott re arked t at a sudden change diet was not on ly possible but proper ; no bad effects fol ’ lo w ; a person s diet m ight be unvaried throughout m the year , and if properly selected for the syste , health and weight rem ain the same even with great m He ental labor and without physical exercise . called attention to the fact that prior to the 1 6th cen tury the food of the people of Europe was largely m eat , and that leprosy and other blood diseases were common ; and the scourge was only mitigated by the m Am introduction of the potato fro erica , which was probably the greatest benefit to Europe accruing from ’ Columbus voyage . T S Our Mr . urner aid that health is in the hands of the women and if vegetarianism is best they ought to n O f m k ow it . rdinarily people will not su fer fro not m m n m eating eat , which is a sti ula t the sa e as alco l in t m hO - , this tha it contains aterial which the body n m o ff m nec essitat ca not use and ust throw pro ptly , I 1ncreased ng activity of all the digestive , circulatory o o x and excretory apparatus . If all the cells f me at were sound , evidently no better food could be m had than eat , but there are three classes of cells in 6 THE VEGETARIAN . 3

' ﬂesh— all living growing , perfect , decaying , and of m the three , only one can be used by the hu an sys em C m t . If you can onvince people that eat is not w m necessary , you ill do a great deal . The istake of vegetarians is that they decry the steak but provide

no substitute . All conditions are against the possibility o f good m eat and even that is the poorest food . His w as m b M position strongly co batted y essrs . S m m m cott and Montgo ery , with who hu anity is the

ﬁrst consideration , preceding even that of life . m to Mr . C . A . Montgo ery called attention a dis gusting and brutal exhibition that was advertised to take place in the outskirts of Brooklyn where oxen m en m were to be killed before a gathering of , wo en and children to determine the respective Skill o f two m b . S E utchers After so e discussion Miss . . Fuller offered the following : R S D : V S t New E OLVE that the egetarian ocie y , Y ork , respectfullyappeals to the Mayor of Brooklyn to use whatever power he m ay have to prevent the public killing of oxen in a contest advertised to take ’ W R P on place at C . issel s idgewood ark , Brooklyn , O 1 V S b e Thursday , ctober . The egetarian ociety lieves that such an exhibition would be demora l iz in m w itnessin i t g to the wo en and children g , and not in harmony with our advance ; tnereforethis So c iety asks that the slaughter of the animals Shall be in aba ttoir an or other private place , without Witnesses other than those required to do the killing and pre aratio n m p of the eat for the barbecue .

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I do not expect that those of my readers who en joy what they consider good health will be induced to test for themselves the truth of the views advo c ated i n is this work . They will perhaps say , It all very well for those to adop t a fruit and farinaceous diet who find a necessity for so doing ; but , as we possess excellent health , and enjoy our food , we are m satisfied that a ixed diet agrees with us best , and , m ‘ “ therefore , shall ake no change , but let well m a alone . They y think that constitutions are dif ferent t m , and tha the food which agrees with so e ma n v y not suit others . To such I would o ly obser e that the digestive and chylo - poietic organs of all men m u are for ed after one ty pe , and that constit tions f m S h dif er erely by lig t congenital peculiarities , modified by long habit ; and these diffe rences would 6 6 THE VEGETARIAN . prove no serious obstacle to the gradual adoption o f o re natural d t a m iet . If frui and farinacea be the ‘ l b m an natura and est food of , there cannot be a dou bt that all would find this diet moreconducive to and perfect health , real pleasure long life , than any m other . But let no one atte pt the change who is not convinced that great benefits are to be derived from who m to it , or is not deter ined bear patiently the m a inconveniences tha t y be at first experienced . To

mm - co ence requires great self denial , and to reap all s m the plea ures and advantages that result , de ands U e m great perseverance . nl ss , therefore , the ind be

m r m e - anda s timn ﬁr ly esolved , the desire for or tasty

lating food will be continually recurring ; and , so

long as this is the case , no relish will be acquired for m S m ore i ple fare . I should be sorry to induce any one to make such alterations in his mode of living as would di minish his pleasures or interfere with the e m o f m r al enjoy ent life , and ust leave each to adopt that course which he thinks wi ll secure to him the m m L et m an ost per anent felicity . every be fully persuaded in his own mind : prove all things and ” hold fast that which is good . Many , however , who ff m dis o sed to m are su ering fro disease , will be p ake trial of a diet which promises s o m any advantages ; and it is to such that the following cautions and ad vice are more particularly addressed The generality of pers ons who have not lived on a full animal diet m ay at once make the change with out experiencing much inconvenience ; but o thers — will ﬁnd it safer to adopt a fruit and farinaceous di et m to b e by degrees , and to per it a few weeks elapse o on e f re they live it exclusively . It has be n already R 6 . THE VEGETA IAN . 7 stated that the gastric juice and other secretions vary h c o f S wit the haracter the food ; light indisposition , m a therefore , y attend any sudden change of diet . It has also been Shown that when a stimulating diet has x d m i u been e change for a si ple yet nutr tio s one , the circulation and respirati on will probably become Slow er ; the physical force m ay appear diminished ; m m a m S the fra e y beco e languid , and the pirits less N m . 0 a buoyant one , however , need be lar ed at ff m these e ects ; they are but te porary , and will soon m e Pre be succeeded by ore agreeabl sensations . judices a gainst an exclusively vegetable diet are so strong that those who commence it are apt to attrib ute to its use every disagreeable feeling , and every m deviation fro health which they experience , regard less o f many other circumstances which may have u m e h been the real ca se . It ust not be exp cted t at few v n few m the trial of a weeks , or e e of a onths , will be suffi cient to eradicate any serious disease ; m m a m m N e so e progress y be ade in that ti e , but atur is slow in all her operations , and it is necessary that the whole of the blood and a considerable portion o f m the tissues , should be renewed before a co plete m and e state of health can be expected . In si pler l ss dangerous disorders a state of . convalescence is very m m a often produced re arkably soon ; Medicine y in many cases su c c eedi neffect ing a cure much more rap idly ; but , without a proper attention to diet , there is i a cont nual danger of a recurrence . Those who have been in the habit of taking m uch anim al food should mm t o r co ence the change with farinaceous ar icles , r m m prepa ations fro the (such as rice , sago , barley , Wh m etc h eaten ﬂour , oat eal , potatoes , ) , rat er than 6 8 R THE VEGETA IAN .

with fruits , either ripe or preserved ; but these will be found very beneficial if gradually introduced . Care should be taken that the bread employed is not m m tre ade fro flour of too fine a quality , as it very m quently produces constipation . Undressed eal is m m decidedly the ost wholeso e . No operations are m ore necessary to be performed by the vegetable eater than due m astication and in m salivation ; for , unless these i portant processes be m attended to , indigestion is al ost sure to be the con

C h miﬁc ation mm - in m sequence . y co ences the sto ach on the surface o f each individual fragment of food ;

. m consequently , the s aller the particles into which it mm is co inuted by the teeth , the sooner it will be n digested . The saliva has a considerable inﬂue ce on

farinaceous food , and the glands which secrete it are

. m large in all herbivorous and frugivorous ani als . m This ﬂuid is alkaline , and it is worthy of re ark that when any of the alkalies are taken for the purpose of n m m the eutralizing orbid acidity of the sto ach , na o f m ture the saliva is entirely changed , and it assu es

quite an opposite property . Many , therefore , pro duce serious mischief by neglecting to employ an

' o fficiousl antidote supplied by nature , while they y A substitute artificial preparations . cidity , heart m burn , etc . , would frequently be easily re oved if the patient would voluntarily excite an increased flow of m saliva , and continue to swallow it for a few inutes ; but this w ould seldom be necessary if proper food m were used and carefully asticated . Each meal Should be carefully digested b efore an S other is taken , and a period of repose hould always W succeed a period of activity . hen the sensation of

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m m the sto ach , the ganglionic syste , the liver , bowels , and all the organs concerned in the nutrition of the W m body . hen the syste , therefore , undebilitated m by disease , will ad it a good supply of oxygen by m ex ercise it m m h uscular , _ is the best eans of di inis m m g the a ount of venous blood , and (in conjunction with a legitim ate supply of proper food) of increasing m the a ount of arterial blood ; and , in proportion as m S the latter preponderates over the for er, hall we m w possess health and uscular strength , as ell as m elasticity of ind . “O E “ xygen , says Mr . . Johnson , is the only stimulating drink which we c an tak e VVith advantage ‘ to ourselves , for the purpose of invigorating our v m strength and ele ating our ani al Spirits . It is the S — ea n de vie wine and pirit of life the true , with an abundance of which nature has supplied us ready m m an ade , and it is the only one proper to . If you - S be thristy , drink water ; if low pirited , drink oxygen ; i that is to say , take act ve exercise , during which you V inhale it . iolent exercise , however , should be avoided ; for , though consistent with health , it ren

ders the processes of decay and renewal too rapid , h and astens the period of old age . m The skin , being a very i portant excretory organ , S b hould on no consideration be neglected . A out thirty ounces of the worn - out m aterials of th e body are said to escape(by insensible perspiration) in twenty - four hours ; but the quantity varies with the m m m te perature of the at osphere , the a ount of ex erc i m i m se . , and other circu stances The nnu erable pores by which effete matter abounding in carbon m and nitrogen are excreted , can perfor their func I THE VEGETARIAN . 7 tion with much greater freedom in the herbivora than in m an; because the artiﬁcial clothing which

the latter is under the necessity of using in cold c_ li mates prevents free exhalation and the skin becomes e c om o und w hich m sh athed in an oleaginous p , aterially ” checks the necessary process . The consequence is that the lungs , kidneys and liver have additional m duty to discharge , which frequently ter inates in d H functional or organic isease . ence arises the necessity for frequent ablution , in order to preserve m the nor al condition of the perspiratory pores . The m war bath , or sponging the whole surface of the m body with tepid water , will effectually re ove all m m m extraneous atter fro the skin ; but , as war th is debilitating and cold (when judiciously administered)

- w is a powerful tonic , it is desirable that cold ater should be substituted whenever the constitution will m m per it it . Many who have been extre ely liable to m coughs , sore throats , etc . , have by this eans been completely protected against a recurrence of these m N distressing and dangerous co plaints . early all who are not affected with organic disease m ay bear the cold bath , or cold sponging , in all seasons , with considerable advantage to health ; but its daily use will prove injurious if the body be exposed too long to the inﬂuence of cold , and , unless a reaction and m oisture of the surface be promoted by subsequent m uscular exercise , or by friction of the skin with the hand , the hair glove or the ﬂesh brush . Several other rules for the preservation of health m a m y be here entioned , such as regular hours , early i i S r sing , good ventilation of the sitt ng and leeping m ai r m roo s , avoidance of currents of , and so e others , 2 7 THE VEGETARIAN . the importance of which is so generally acknowledged — that they require no recommendation F r uits a nd F inacea a r .

The Th a nk s giving B a nq uet .

We copy from the C /z icago Vegeta r ia nthe follow ing particulars of an interesting banquet which will be given by the Chicago Society on Thanksgiving We u m E Day . tr st that any astern vegetarians will be able to join their -Western brethren on that day and enjoy the good things which have been prepared to regale their friends and to tempt the cannibals from their depraved tastes : The festival hall of the Auditorium Hotel will be the scene of a ﬂeshless feast on November 2 6 m Thanksgiving Day . At that ti e and place the Chi cago Vegetarian Society will hold its second annual hoAliday banquet . large attendance is anticipated , and the success of the affair is already assured . The food question will be discussed from various — points of view the physiological , the hygienic , the m ethical , the econo ic , the religious . The list of Speakers includes the names of a num

- m ber of well known refor ers . ‘ Rev H P P S . . . Clubb , of hiladelphia , resident of N S V the ational ociety of egetarians , will respond to S t m the toast of The Vegetarian ocie y of A erica . Virch and R randh 1 E W . G Miss Frances . illard , , H G the indoo philosopher ; eorge Francis Train ,

- W A P . S nnie Jennes Miller , resident John cott , of THE VEGETARIAN . 7 3

New Y V S H the ork egetarian ociety ; Dr . J . . Kel Sir A R P logg , lexander oss , resident of the Food R m S G A efor ociety of Canada ; overnor ltgeld , and m tO others equally pro inent , have been invited talk . H W R S o : S . S ilcox , ecording ecretary of the ciet m l y, will act as toast aster , and wil doubtless ﬁll m the position with judg ent and good taste . Mr . Wilcox is a well - known lawver and an ex - newspaper m an . The bill of fare will be all that can be desired—even V — by egetarians and variety will not be lacking . P the m m erhaps chief f“eature of this enu of any w features will be the vegetable roast , which ill m m N utto se a be ade fro , a nut prepar tion which , when cooked , is so perfect a substitute for roast beef that in eatingit one could readily imagine himself par o f taking ﬂesh food . This vegetable roast contains ex ac tl m u y the sa e proportion of proteids , or nitrogeno s m t atter , as beefsteak , and , in addition , thir y per

- cent . of fat , and a rich supply of the nerve building

- and bone building salts . Besides it is far more di estib le and m m g ore delicate and toothso e in ﬂavor . The following has been prepared as a basis of the menu for the banquet by a committee consisting of m l mb o u . Bo h A Mesda es Corinne Brown , J Bel g , nna W V L D and G Wil eeks , and iola udden , M . . , F . . helm

THE MENU . C ano peis a la Dusenberry Cream of Celery a la Clubb O lives Radishes Celery Petite Bo ach eis a la Voltaire Potatoes a la - ParI S1enne ' Croquettes de Rice a la Plato French Peas Timbal of Macaroni a la Aristotle Haricot vert Vegetarian Roast a la Kellogg Salad a la Shelley I Dessert Cream a la Rousseau Nesselrode Pudding Fruits Nuts Raisins A lmond Meal Granose Cereal Coffee Sterilized Water Every care has been taken to provide for the ; m w h o pleasant entertain ent of those attend . The ’ guests will be received in the parlors at seven o clock . R mm ita The eception Co ittee will see to , that every m body beco es acquainted with everybody else .

Music is to be provided , and everything will be done to make the occasion an enjoyable one . The Auditorium is one of the most beautiful hotels in the world , and is known far and wide for the ex ll c e c e en . of its banquets In all its features , includ m ing its furnishings and fittings in every depart ent , the Auditorium is without its superior anywhere in the world . While the banquet will be given by theVegetarian S in m ociety , and the interests of vegetarianis , it is not the intention to confine the sale of tickets to “E vegetarians only . very person interested in the betterment of m ankind and who takes pleasure in m m eeting those who entertain like senti ents , is espe c ially invited to participate in the enjoyment that the m W f festive convocation at the Auditoriu ill o fer . Those residing outside of Chicago who desire to at THE VEGETARIAN . tend are requested to write to the treasurer for in m for ation regarding hotels , transportation , etc . Orders for tickets should be sent in as soon as pos u L sible . They sho ld be addressed to Miss Frances . V S Dusenberry , Treasurer Chicago egetarian ociety , ’ Mc Vick er s d h Buil ing , C icago . The cost of the ticket is The Society has been officially informed that the railroad companies w ill sell railroad tickets for Thanksgiving Day at either half fare or a fare and

- one third for the round trip .

C lip p ings .

V I S F N EC ESSI Tv - S EGETAR AN ROM . peaking at a din ’ m ner given by the Merchant Tailors Co pany , on the 2 0th Ma Guar dia n 2 th 1 8 8 8 of y (the , 7 May , 5 , p . 7 9 , m He d col . Bishop Te ple said : coul hardly Speak to o strongly o n the subject o f the distress e which had fallen upon the clergy . H had known a clergyman w h o had had to live fo r months he b eneﬁc e entirely upon vegetables ; had known , a m 6 0 0 m whose nor al value was £ a year , fro which the incumbent could no t get £6 0 ; he had known a clergyman w h o fo r three o r four weeks together had to h to been unable get anyt ing eat but bread . S FF E S — Six fo r m TU ED GG Boil eggs twenty inutes . R m S e ove the hells and cut lengthwise . Mash the o ne o f yolks , add teaspoonful butter , a little chopped m o r h b parsley , thy e , other er s as preferred , salt and i m pepper . Fill the wh tes with the ixture ; press t w o Put m the halves together . the into a baking dish and cover with white sauce made o f o ne tablespoon 6 7 THE VEGETARIAN .

o f one l o f o ne ful butter , tablespoonfu ﬂour , and cup o f h o t m S ilk . eason with salt and pepper ; then m cover with buttered cru bs , and brown . O ’ C W B I S IT . ERL N K HEN hat is this iron pa“n sus pended over your lamp o n the table ? That m O e m is y kitchen , said berlin ; I din with y par “ w h o me to me m ents , allow bring away with each ti e ’ l m o f A t I a u p bread . eight o clock in the evening in put the bread this pan , with a little salt . I pour m o n I m m so e water it , then put y la p under it , and m o r continue y studies . If toward ten eleven ’ u o clock I feel hungry , I then eat the so p which I have m o u ade in this way , and I can tell y I ﬁnd it very ” l O m de icious food . The berlin fa ily were nurtured upon fare which does no t sustain some o f the modern theories o f what is essential fo r the strengthening o f m m menu m to the hu an fra e . The fro year year was

m : . P m uch as follows otatoes and ilk . Brown mi P l bread and lk . otatoes and green vegetab es m R b m pleasantly cooked with ilk . ice oiled in ilk , a e ten with oatcake . Fruit with bread , corn ﬂour m m —Li eo Ober lin ade into a pudding with ilk . f f ,

by Mrs . Josephine Butler . ’ “ EXT RACTS F ROM BACKHOU SE AND TVLO R S WI T ” VO L I —ne m SS F O R IST . . O NE CHR , eal only a day ’ to m o f was allowed ( Basil “s onks) bread , water and W to beans , without salt . ith us , wrote Basil the “ ’ Em a s m peror Julian , is beco ing , the cook s art has no place ; o ur knives never touch blood ; o ur dainti m est eal is vegetables , with coarse bread , and half ’ o f l m sour wine (p . 5 By the labor Basi s onks many a barren tract was converted into corn - ﬁelds S m e m o t and vineyards (p . end so e ﬁne p

8 7 THE VEGETARIAN . out o f which they supply themselves with s uch ex ’ ﬁ BZ b w ood s Ma a z ine ac . tras . g

Ma lver n Looker - ou The has the follo“wing para n R s Yo u m graph o Vegetarian e taurants . ust h I man know t at have a friend , a fat little and as m l o ne happy as any orta living , and day he gave a severe sho ck to all my preconceived notions o f m e V things by telling he was a egetarian . It was a - no t - self evident fact that he was half starved , and n m m m after thi king over the proble for so e ti e , I made up my mind to pay a VI Sit to a Vegetarian , R r m W estau ant , and solve the ystery . ell , having e f m carried this r solve into e fect , and finding yself m seated in a nice , bright , cheery apart ent , waited o n m l l m m by a co e y ittle aid in tidy habili ents , I u f m took p the bill o fare . I could ake nothing of the uncouth names before me—they were as in c S — i s rutable as the phinx and finally , with a w ld th e guess , I gave an order, choosing easiest word I l W l no t cou d find . hat the particu ar order was does m S ffi to m s atter . u ce it say , the o t exacting epicure could hardly have found fault with th e dish I was m served with , It was so e sort of pie , the contents i being very eatable , but what they cons sted of I would rather no t say ; the crust was the most deli cate and ethereal eVer put togeth er b y mortal fingers

- a t r m a veritable fairy confec ion nice , ore pal table s m m et dishes I have eldo , while the cooking was S m n o f - i ply perfectio . If any my lady readers should to m a happen visit the etropolis they c nnot , do better V R than pay a visit to a egetarian estaurant ; , they will ﬁnd the menu a delightful change from the co n - m v entional dishes of m ost modern dining roo s . THE VEGETARIAN . 7 9

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TH R S4 EGULAR MEETING .

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C h a unc ey Ro e.

There are vegetarians and vegetarians ; the name Is the same in both cases but the spirit is different ; would that there were m ore like the m an whose m u na e is given above . It is very easy to give p e eating flesh , and probably there are cases wh re the m v m .I S individual not i pro ed thereby , but the otive is of far greater Importance than the action . I cer tainly would be the last to censure a savage for being m i n a cannibal , or of the ignorant asses our large i R e a v e etarian f r . o c ties o eating flesh . Mr has been g for several years and was converted by rea“ding a L W P t h I the N ine paper by ady all age , publis ed n teeut/t entur to 1 s r C y . In gratitude the benefit e C eived had r I S he has the a ticle reprinted , and dis r 1n s m a t ibuting it broadcast the hopes that other _ y m be turned fro the error of their ways , even as he v m was . If every con ert would follow his exa ple the 2 THE VEGETARIAN .

world w ould be the better for it and the Spread o f

truth be accelerated . Perhaps the strongest paragraph in the pamphlet is t“he following ; I do not think that anybody has the right to in du lge in t astes which oblige others to follow a bru taliz in m m an g occupation , which orally degrades the m an who earns his bread by it . To call a a butcher m o f h eans that he is fond bloodshed . Butc ers often m m m m beco e urderers . I re e ber two cases in the p apers last sum mer W here butchers had been hired to m v m no t w urder indi iduals who they did even kno . A m i I S fter this co es the rrepressible thought , it right ’ to take life in order to feed one s self , when there is plenty of other available food which Will do just as ? A m well ore serious consideration , and h me one w ich grew upon every year , was the sad and distasteful necessity o f killing a living being in ’ m order to live one s self . The great ystery of pain h e in this world , w ich if it once g ts a hold upon the m fﬁ to o ff t dim ind is so terribly di cult shake , of en med m a y gre test pleasures . But this feeling too I

tried , but less successfully , to subordinate to what I ” then considered right and reasonable .

Th e C h ic a go Banq uet .

The December number of the C b icago Vegetar ia n brings the best account we have SO far received of the Thanksgiving day banquet held in that city . It

was a great and deserved success . The thanks of " m due i w h o hu anity are its orig nators and those , by

to S . their presence , helped hed lustre on the occasion THE VEGETARIAN . 3

Among the speakers were our old friend Henry S . P V S o f Am Clubb , resident of the egetarian ociety er H P i Al . S ica , bert nyder , resident of the Ch cago Mr V S . A egetarian ociety , s Fairchild llen of the Illi

- A na arik a H m no is A nti V S . ivisection ociety , g Dhar a m and n n pala and any others . Music si gi g was L 1 A provided by the Misses Mabelle ew s , dele Blauer , B m h e m i d o b au W . Daisy g , Alic Bate an and Jenn e oo y

The toast of the evening was given by Mr . Clubb and is reproduced below . The sentiment given in such a kind and compli m so entary spirit , and cordially received by you , is m o f another evidence , added to any others , the hearty and generous feelings which have ever existed between the Chicago Vegetarian Society and the one which I h ave th e honor to represent and which c o v I n A mer1c a ers n Its aspiration this vast conti ent of . A th e lthough in its infancy , it already Operates in all S United tates and Territories , in the British posses sions and also to some extent in Mexico and other S outhern republics . There certainly has never been any reason why this cordiality should no t exist and why this h earty c o - S no t operation hould continually increase . It was the Vegetarian Society o f America that selected Chi ’ h d W W Ve etari cago for the ol ing —of the hole orld s g an Congress in 1 8 93 a Congress that has done so much to place the humane and merciful sentiments o f vegetarian advocates before the world . These results were secured by the united efforts o f the Chicago society and the Vegetarian S ociety o f m tw o u A erica for at least years previo s to that event . Al though so much was accomplished by the active THE EGE I A V TAR N . c o - 0per atio n of thesesocieties and the representa f V U n ives of the egetarian Federal nio , and of the Ve t S Of a E i s ge arian ociety M nchester , ngland , it a f act that the principal and discus sions held haveonly ented to the public What would have been accomplished had the u a e can c t r d f ll report p ear d be only onjec u e . p n ort is still i n our ha ds and the Vegetarian A m c new a o n i s eri a having press of its w , ’ preparing to 1ss ue a volume containi ng all that valu a ble material and hopes with the co - operatio n of C New Yo h e i i e and Of hicago , rk and ot er larg c t s , th ey e etarians re thro u h o rit nent g scatte d g the conti , to C m i o in c li r place this o p lati n all the publi “b aries so as to j ustify the title of the .Wh ole tarl an Co " he uet , which is ld ' b lending th e prI n ' W I th o ur Th ank s the sacriﬁce o f lifeis de ' o r introduced ab o ut 1 8 6 0

’ It had been cu stomary froma traditional practice f the H us Of srae m nu s o o e I l to ake an a n al fea t , C a the P and at nno ce lled assover , this feast an i nt ' lamb Was the Vl c tim and i ts slaughtered remains th riests N o w the e l e g . ( y ar y h arm a a ” less bird , c lled turkey) . But then there camea great Innovator who had a c m an o A u m little o p y of ap stles , nd he ta ght the the b est w ay of showing their gratitude to th eir Heavenly Father for rescumg them from Egyptian

8 6 V THE EGETARIAN .

. S . W Currants Moulded ago Fruit Tarts . ater .

S . p“onge Cake , etc The tables were appropriately decorated t th ’ a ' f m ni e v ses o . ﬂowers“ In the i ster s blessing occurr d these words : We come to Thee with the m ore c On

' fi denc eo nthis occasion , -inasmuch that we are sure that

' —i — this is and we thankfully ackn ow ledge it a guilt l ess - feast upon which we may hopefully invoke thy benediction . This banquet was presided over by mem i Joseph Brotherton , a ber of the British parl a ment w h o had then followed th e vegetarian practice about forty years . Since th at time m any vegetarian b anquets have 1n E the been held various parts of ngland , on conti o f E i n N ew Y P nent urope and ork , hiladel phia and I Ame m n Chicago n rica , at so e of which it has bee m n h t t y privilege to be prese t . And w a is s ill more m a I n i port nt , the idea of a guiltless feast the prepara

' tion of which no blood has been Spli t is b eing ado pt ed m m l i i by any fa i ies of all c v lized nations , and is being extended to thousands of homes th at have b e c ome blessed with the benign inﬂuence which has c onferred health and happines s where before w as m n sickness , isery and co tention . None but those who have experienced it c anfully understand the true enjoym ent o f a home that 18 free

m . fro the stain and odor of ﬂesh and blood . To young persons just b eginning domestic life together i n m nh re the ost delightful relatio s ip , we always mm n new e m l co e d a hous and ho e where the death y , 1c ken1n o f en s g odor slaughtered ﬂesh has never tered . “ e Pure homes ar essential to pure lives. It is much easier to b egin- right than to get right after 8 THE VEGETARIAN . 7 beginning wi th the old pollution and permitting it to contaminate th e atmosphere and destroy the sweet m ness of ho e . “ Thanking you o nbehalf of the Vegetarian Society of America fo r the kindly and com plimentary senti i m ment yo u have expressed in its honor , perm t e to offer as a volunteer sentiment The N ew Homes of Chicago : m ay they begin and m a be continued in the line of purity , hu anity , pe ce and progress , for Better is a dinner of herbs Where love is than a stalled ox and contention therew ith

HE VEG E R N S O C I ETY N EVV Y RK T A A O . T I , _ E C C F O R 8 6 XE UTIVE OMMITTEE I 9 . Pres ident W T ER S C T , JOHN AL O

F t ice- Pr es ident MR H N irs S . V . . A I D . , M AV LA

nd ice- Pr es ident W Seco V G U S I C K . , EORGE BR N u e Tr eas r r S . Y A T M . , CHARLE MON GO ER H S ecr eta r A T U I D . y , R H R AV LAN Regula r Meetings b old on t/z c f our t/z I/ Vednesday in v ‘ t/ze w ont/t a t 2 7 bVes t nz izd s tr eet TH R 5 5 EGULAR MEETING . A th m Ve etarI an S t the 5 s eeting of the g ociety , N ew Y N o v 2 1 8 6 ork , held . 3 , 9 , at the hall of F owler W 2 E z xs t P S ell s, 7 ast street , resident cott in the m m chair and forty e bers and visitors present , the Rev H P P i S . . . Clubb , of hiladelphia , res dent of the Am V S to erican egetarian ociety , was “introduced speak upon th e topic of the e vening What is the m an? He best food for said , that , having lately 8 ET N THE VEG ARIA .

b eenl oc c upied with the history of the movement for m Am m food refor in erica , there were several atters in that discussion which could serve to illustrate the ’ n S e S eve ing topic , for its history would t nd to how h e a e ari ni m st ro t . dvantag s of veget a s Chri , the p teach ei o f m a ve etar1an sm foundest or lity, taught g i and introduced into the c hurch the sac rament of and ce n e bread wine (grap e jui ) , i stead of the passov r

' - r of the jews which required -the Slau ghter of a lambJ The » Christian religion is closely identiﬁed with o ur u w e vegetarian practices , and the early ch rches re o a Lv e n c mm n O c e pr b bly eg taria o u ities . ther tea h rs o f m f u e o f orality , o nd rs other religions , were also '

ri s : Z o P . vegeta an oroaster , C nfucius , ythagoras . In Am i o f C u er ca , in the early part the eighteenth ent ry , Benjamin Franklin was converted to Simple diet by

’ ‘ m Tre o ris Wa to Hea /t/z Lan -e reading Tho as j y , g s

o r th e r e o Boston , ccur ed ﬁ st r corded vegetarian pra ' tice , when Franklin lived on o ne dollar per week and

e o f h e in: » oft n saved half that resulting , as said , in e e cre ased cl arness of perc ption . Mr l h e b a 8 . C ubb stated _ had een vegetarian for 5 a a 1 8 1 0 t t o f ye rs , th t s , or years prior to the insti u ion th e En l Ve S 1 8 8 g ish getarian ociety . In 4 , the open ing of the vegetarian crusade was a banquet at Hey W d? s H e E w oo all , Manchest r , ngland , at hich Mr o P h a r t . w o t M. B o hert n , , presided , stated th he had eena ve etar1an 0’ b g for 4 years . My wealth does no t co nsist so m ii c h i nth emulti tudeo f my possession s as in th e few ness of my ’ wants . " He e o t stated , that his xperience and bserva ion THE VEGETARIAN: 8 9 clearly proved that those who refrained from animal

- food have , been preserved ih youthf ul appearance , m m f health and beauty , uch beyond the ti e o those who use animal food ;

‘ What o f the f uture? Z' I t will be just w hat w emake ‘ it b y united a nd deeided effort ; by working together and p utting forth our strength to accom plish best m m a m results . The ove ent is favored by h ving any m en who al e willing to work in this cause In u m an . n Chicago , Mr S yder the president a yo ng r am z -ed e connected with the press , has o g four soci i s t e V n E c t es , beside h egetaria ating Club onnected i the U e On w w th niv rsity . Thursday next they ill i n m r e have a Thanksg ving Di ner . In the o ning ther will be a thanksgiving service tending towards the m a h on e h for tion of a churc veg tarian p rinciples , wit the keynote of L ove one another If we refrain from taking life if w e remainin har m ony with the principles no t to live b y the destruc

— - tion of th e life of. o ther a nimal s th e result must b e t e ofz arniv ~ a better nature . C ontrast h characters c o ro us and We say if y ou will get the b e s t out i f y o u wish to -live to eu ‘

t e ées z m . l th o es im le , s joy h , you ust ive upon p parts of nature which will tend to nurture a character of the highest moral nature b r e to . e Being asked as his diet , Mr Clu b pli d he me l u s i f used corn a , n t , coco a, butter , hyg enic co fee ; 6 P . M . n o had dinner at , consisti g f potatoes and three nt e nd or four other vegetables , u s , ggs , etc . , a used sometimes unfermented gra pe jui ce or other fruit juices . P S d in i u resident cott state that , his opin on , fr its 01 THE ET R I 9 VEG A AN ,

m and nuts for ed the best food . The desire to eat h h no t l d ﬁeS was in erited natura . Many persons woul like to be vegetarians but feared to make a change in their food ; but they should remember th at three fourths of th e inh abitants o f the earth are vegetari A S a ans . to his h bits of eating he said they never

.He i . r . . M . varied took b eakfast at 7 45 A , cons sting (at this season) of two o r three bunches o f grapes m a d f m w n . oat eal ith crea , half a roll a cup of co fee

' 6 o f Dinne r was at P . M . and consisted two boiled e c u f e m m G m ggs , a p of co fe and a roll , so eti es raha m in bread . Ani als a state of nature never varied f w m th e their diet , and the urther they ent fro nature r S neare they approached to ickness. L H fo r Dr M . . olbrook said that those who do not m l m wish to depend upon ani a aterial for food , the s o I S : h be t fo d ﬁrst , grains , of which w eat is the best b ein a e1 fec t m uh g p food , then oats , while rice is a ore L h ad m b alanced diet . abor and exposure been ain tai ned without liquor on a western railroad by the distribution of one pOund of oatmeal per m an per w as day with other foods . Fatty food necessarily d o r T e added to white wheat brea , as oils butter . h G m S er an sour bread was a balanced diet econd , fruits , of which the best is grapes , the seeds and f 1 skins o which should be ejected . f if m Di ferent people have d ferent require ents , se dentary persons require their food to be more care fully prepared than the laborer . V b t ’ egetarian diet would be the better , u we can t m to all co e it . Fruits and potatoes Should not be eaten together m as they are no t co patible . E 1 THE VEG TARIAN . 9

D r E G m . . . Day said that vegetarianis was found

' o f ethi C ‘ S h iene m ed upon reasons j yg and econo y . We have no right to take a life which w e did no t L m D . give ife is so e portion of the _ eity running t u u n hro gh every gradation p to our pla e . Ei m ghty per cent . of our ills originate in the sto

. A i x ach s to pract cal e perience , he stated that his diet had been one . o f utmost Simplicity for five or Six i m y . ears , pr ncipally fruits and nuts It is well to eli m is t indu l ate a craving for variety , which pala al ~ m m l did no t gence . The enu in his fa i y vary , con i o f u e s sting generally ncooked v getables , celery , e tc m im salads , . , or baked potatoes so et es ; nuts , e i ‘ i l r and very var ety of fru ts , app es prefer ed ; dates He m mid figs . had often walked fifteen iles upon a m o f s r o r day eal nut , aisins a piece of chocolate . im l no t fo r m an An a tissue is fit food . o m i Mr . M ntgo ery sa d that the best food was that a in which cost the least l bor , and caused the least t jury to o hers . H , Mr _ olbrook stated that thirty years ago one of ’ ‘ Trall s Dr . patients grew thin on a diet of wheat ; he therefore ate peanuts , a quart a day . gained twenty und in m o s . A p ‘ a onth and grew fat perfect diet s would be softened wheat , fruit and nuts .

- Mr S e . H. Allen p ncer stated that he believed the ’ best aaa to s u f be uncooked grain , fr its and nuts , S these with cleanliness , fresh air , exercise and leep , should make a perfect man f S e Thanks o the ocietyare ext nded to Mr . Clubb fo r i i his V sit and inspirit ng talk , and he was request ed to carry to the Chicago Vegetarian Societies our

s reetin s r and w - heartie t g g ell wishes . d H c eta r Se r . A . A . I D djourne AV LAN , y 2 THE VEGETARIAN .

PHI LA D EL PH VEGE R N O E Y IA TA IA S CI T .

’ ’ Pr s za enl L A R Y e A . E S . , , T de MR H S . S ARAH EALL . W W ILLIAM BRO N . E SS S . MI . I . BETTE ON C S COMMITTEE TOPI . REV SS E S . CLUBB . MI . I . BETTE . Monthly meetings are held every third Monday in m 8 M L R m t P . . each on h at , in the ecture oo of the P Bible Christian Church , ark avenue , above Mont m go ery avenue . TH R I 9 EGULAR MEETING . At the N ovember meeting of the Philadelphia V i n S egetar a ociety an address was delivered , the subject of which was The A lleged Divine Permis i to Eat E M m s on very oving Thing , fro the words f n m o Ge . I . : X ; 3 , 4, 5 , na ely E m o vm m 3 . very g thing that liveth shall be eat fo r o u y . es/z lz e blood t . i 4 But f , with the f thereof , the here o f ! , shall ye not eat

5 . And surely 1I Y I ( ) our blood of your lives will require ,

( 2 ) At the hand of every beast will I require . 1t A m an (3) nd at the hand of , ’ h f ans b W (4) And at the and o every m rother ill m an I require the life of . Owing to the Christmas holidays the next meeting to a th is be held on the ﬁrst Monday in J nuary (4 ) , m 1 8 . 9 7 , at the usual ti e and place mm m ad

The following ; is a su ary of the i portant

dress .

THE EG 94 V ETARIAN .

H i ffi u r e e lay the second di c lty which , like the fi st , no i had ex stence whatever for vegetarians . ' n i n z ta lies I w a The words pri ted n verse 4 were , it s o ut d pointed , unauthorize as w ell as unnecessary , a d d m an t I f n obscure the e ing con ained therein . a o i i the translated cc rding to the or g nal , author here z e m 2 o I . . pr hibits three things ; ( ) flesh , eat , ( ) alive,

(3) blood . The 5 th Verse was Shown i nits third clause to be defec tiveand a moral difficulty was pointed o ut to n m exist therein i the path of eat eaters . — — I nthe first clause first ten w ords Go d makes m an b e f r m Sh every responsi l o the hu an blood he eds . — — The last clause last fifteenwords o f this (5 th verse) clearly teaches that every m an is responsible ’ f r m th e o every other an s life he has taken . In sec o nd a m lan cl u“se the Creator e ploys the following guage ; A t the hand of every beas t will I require ” i m a n . it . e. M , , the life of the beast takes anifestly t/7 ebeasts r es ons iblefo r m are here declared . p the hu an l eas t re i e . N b f they take ow , if the was rendered ' s onsible m S a p for the hu an life it took , the peaker p o f r pealing to the intelligence the audience , thei u and i th e sense of j stice , reason log c , asked whether n t erson w h o conclusion was o inevitable . that the p takes the life o f the beast was equally r espons iblef or tltelife of tko a nima l he takes ? p The third clause “ reads as follows “And at the n m an de ective ha d of . This line is in so far f as it ec t o redica te iso l contains neither obj r p . If it stood l b ut m ated it wou d yield no sense whatever , fro the m context we can supply the issing link. The verb i n each of the other three clauses i s clearly seen to be E A THE VEG TARI N . 95 “ tw o man ob ec t require . In clause is the j of the sub ect m beas t m e j , na ely , ; wherein the beast is ad huma n responsible for the life it takes . In this clause the beast must necessarily be the object fo r th e taking of whose life Go d m akes man the responsible sub ect S m i n j . upplying, therefore , the ssi g words m u a fro the context , the third clause given in f ll re ds u d ita lics; a“s follows , placing the s pplied wor s in A nd at the hand of m an w i ll I r equi r e t/7e lzfe of taea n7 7na l li etakes m a un a . This y so d an wful ver r m - L et m e m dict to the ea s of eat eaters . the b co e vegetarians and at once thei r conscience becom e re lieved f of its heavy burden . The ree choice lies m before the . R l Gen : ecapitu ated . 9 3 , 4, 5 would present these three thoughts . I i l n . A linguist c and physiological troub e are see “ m am m an m a at . 3 , e in v “for eat eaters n ely , that y n — m W B o ly creepers ani al or vegetable , hich ( ) and they must be eaten a lzo e/ F les/z blood as well as , and either still quiver l r ohibi ted i n i e . mm ing with if , is p V 4, wh ch co and form s a very serious physical obstacle in the way o f m - eat eating . Man m r ns i le o t . es o b r ae n7 . a 3 , in v 5 , is ade p f 7na l l e H mora l tr ou le if he takes . ere lies a great b . Go d will require at the hand of m an the life o f th e m o r u to ani al he takes ca ses be taken . And the m m evil , it would see , is ore aggravated if the poor m S to eat ani al is lain in order it , which , as is well u known to the youngest vegetarian , is absol tely

. ve e necessary Indeed , the“better way , as every g n : s ! taria can testify , is Thou halt not kill 6 9 THE VEGETARIAN .

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“ J THE P E R F E CT WAY I N D I ET. A treatise advocating a return to the natural and anci ent food o f o ur ra

A NNA K I NG SF O RD , — i in o f h lt o i Paris D octor of Med c e t e F acu y ,

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8 9 THE VEGETARIAN .

h - Of ' m i deat rate the Jewish , as co pared w th the l f P - n O G . ge era , population reat Britain apers were read and a discussion h eld on the subject at theannual meeting of the British Medical A ssociation at C am i m m I Of P bridge dur ng this su er , n the section ublic H l h th e en la . A ea t under presid cy of Dr c nd , the Begins Professor Of medicine in the university of O t e u o : xford , and h following resol ti n was agreed to t h e i Of o su b eet O f in Op nion this secti n , the j th e comm unicability Of disease to m an by anim als h im fOO d e em c en r as urgntly d ands areful qui y , — e to t n w ic desi bie i n th reon , and the legisla io h h is ra co nnection th ereWI th : and t hat the Committee Of w ‘ - ” C ounc fl Of th e A s so u ati onb e Invi ted to appoint a Committee for thepurppse Of reporting On this m atter. From the care taken to pr ov1de the jew ish c o m munity w ith anim al food free from communi cab le “ e as r es r h dis ase , the questionh especial inte t fo t em, and the fo llo w mg summ ary may be takenas convey ing the present consen sus Of sci entific Opinion upon h e t subject . N O doubt c an O f course arise as to th e communi c ab ility O f the class Of diseases I n Infe cted cattle t O i i m a knownas parasi ic , f which trich nos s y be t a I a s s im l aken s a type . nthese c ses the parasite I p y transferred from the flesh Of the b east to that O f th e n in c fi a m and I the ma , hi h it nds congenial ho e , , n o s Of d m re n e ta p r ce s its evelop ent , f que tly produc s fa l u s h i r l . r k w es t T ic inosis , unt l recently un no n n r m t cou t ry , is f equently e c m Of ea to the usto there p t vEG T RI A N THE . E A .

m Of s m h the for sau ages , ore than alf raw . Thus in

‘ t Of m i s o -b li at r Berlin where the inspec ion eat g o y, ﬁfteen Outbre aks of the malady were Oﬁi c ially re

‘ ported during the year 1 8 7 8 and in o ne of the su b i o f f Th urban distr cts , half those a fected died . e immunity O f Great Britain frOm tric hinosi s i s un n a th i n o t w o a n fortu ately g f the past , outb re ks havi g — ’ en re n t he onef gin b e cognised duri g past decade , o in to n in 1 8 1 a a O nb the W k g 7 , nd second oard school “ ” s C nw l 18 ea to the hip or al in 7 7 , , both trac ble use f as in m - o , _ pork food , one case ho e fed , , in the second r m m i m in im o A . po ted fr , erica The case aga nst eat fec te it s - O f i are d w h para ites , wh ch there several V i is c a v no b ec distinct ariet es , so le rly pro ed that O j t can a d it be g ined by iscussing further .

‘ it t is c m l w W h h ex eption , the ani a diseases hich are a r a e sm s l t p esent or h ve been , regard d as tran is ib e m an m are v in m be to through ingested eat se en nu r ,

' iz I cattle- u z w i r , _( ) j plag e , ( ) s ne typhoid , (3) pleu o n um i o m u i p e on a , (4) f ot and o th disease , ( 5) anthraco d 6 r A s re a d s . s disea es , ( ) e ysipelas , and ( 7) tubercle g r = th e s tw o t h e c as O f s ea fir t , eviden e to , their power p ifi'c e The c inf ction when taken as food is conflicting . “ resemblance they both bear to typhoid f ever in their

' s ymptoms h as caused them to b e regarded as the analoguein cattle of this m alady ; but their po w er o f c mm o r man is o unicating this _ any other disease to ’ ou nd m a s i w e zx zc e d b tful , a y be considered as t ll j a . l O f m The sa e such eat is , however , rightly stopped ,

a s o f e . i ts c c b ec u e, even if incapable conv ying spe iﬁ c o a e m deterierated in nt gion , it is undoubt dly uch t and its i i m c m e quali y , nutr t ve power u h di inish d . The e m is m evidence against pleuro pn u onia , uch 0 0 THE E E V G TARIAN .

n stro ger , as it is a distinctly contagious and febrile e e b o d Of ma dis as , tainting the entire y the ani l f c e and i m the m a fe t d , warranting its exclus on fro e at m Yet ff c is Of the arket . so ine i ient the working le 1slation e C f g upon the subj ct that Dr . arpenter , O m n Of Croydon , entions a recent i stance an outbreak Of - m a pleuro pneu onia in his district , in which it p eared I m m p n a far yard a ongforty cows , which were i t all in one shed . The local nspector isolated the ﬁrs - I I h cow , leaving thirty nine n the shed n w ich the ﬁrst ” Of n - t w o e i case appeared . these , twe ty wer se zed “

inth -the about six weeks , one after the other , wi ‘ and n O f the shed s au ht ered disease , were take out , l g ,

‘ ' and buried on the premises ; but the rest O f -the « herd

” b used as ood h u were killed y the owner and f , t o gh they had been kept the whole time in the infected s Yet Of L G me hed . the inspector the ocal overn nt Board had agreed that all pro per steps had been taken in this instance to prevent the spread O f the Of e infection . course , if these cattle had be n m m exa ined at the arket after being slaughtered , as d would have been the case if intended for Jewish foo ,

- unfit they would all have been condemned as . Dr . m Of Of He u Ca eron , the Medical ficer alth for D blin , m a has given it as his Opinion , confir ed by l rge ex erienc e u s p and ab ndant evidence , that bad result s m m Of Of m t en ue fro the consu ption this class ea , yet it continues to be sold at a cheap rate as food to the poor and- m t Ono ur Foot ou h disease , the fourth list , has e a s a i e f be n defined a cont gious erupt v fever , a fect ing all warm blooded animals and attacking m an Wh i l I h and its ole h story , during the ong period n whic

THE GET I N VE AR A .

conveyingits Speci al infe ction should never be OVeI and it h looked , s ould fOr um n o s i h a fo d , e pec allyas

' manner inw hich th e ' i La stl the C i In ere - O f t is y, h ef t st h

“ ' ' " ‘ I l of minds; the most d estructive Of antO w -hic h hum an b eings “ least One ﬁfth Of th eentire mortality Of t heOO

' do u -b t t er th e it x ih at w as whe h e ists c tle _ ' ’ identical with that Of Inan thi s qu estion h as I i Ow beenso lved In the affirmative ; and th eevidence Of ' ‘ - C mmu n a Of th e i e 1s a i i- ainin the o ic bility d seas r p d y g g '

strength -I t TIs only comparatively rec ently that the s uspi c I Onof tubercle being conveyed to the c ons u mers “ Of ﬂesh so tainted h as b e en entertained ; b ut its ini u lab ility Is no longer a matter

is no h o d Of m cattle . There doubt t at th usan s . ani als ‘ in this co nditI On are slaughtered and Sold for fo Od and the only m ethod mend-ed b y ' lem the Mr . F ing is e t rOu h o ut t h e e t i Of all C r as h g the country , insp c on a c es a b e I u m m o i o bout to ss ed fro the as fo d , and the c n demnatio n and destruc tion O f all / such as are found “ f h m a la 18 e hi hl rOb ~ a fected with t is dy . It Ind ed g y p able that m uch Of t heinfantile s c rofula and tubercle ' ' m all as s and Ls e - ith e so prevalent a ong cl se , e p cially V I THE, EG EI A R A N . _

ib utab le to the consum ption O f the ﬂesh

. e l tuberculous cattle . The pr va ence among b OVI ne animals is know n to be er to t h e a ec eO f y y great , though , owing bs n sanitary u i Of h h hou i t nspection cows eds and slaug ter? ses , can no t m i t a a to be exactly esti ated . But ppe rs be On i On o it largely the ncrease , and the C ntinent has e t m Of a l b en ascertained tha fro one to ﬁve per cent . l cattle are tuberculous Ani mals thus affected do not e s Of and as a rul , show igns wasting , it is thus Only byexam ination after death that its existence c an be

la d a . n detec ted . I n y add that the results arrive t o this subject by English physiologists have been a d . co nﬁrmed. i n bun antly by Continental physic a s , m w m ma m G nv u a ong ho y be na ed erlach , Cha ea x C m O f m o h olin, and any others , all who have sh wn t at can be m the tubercle , trans itted by ingestion Of the m Of ﬂesh and ilk diseased cattle .

’ ‘ The c o nclu sI On to be arrived a t from a consider

Of e u h t O f . S ation the ntire s bject are , t a the peciﬁc d m d fO O d a i ah iseases Of ani als use as , the par sit c , th rac oid er si ehato u s t ub erc u lO u s oo t - , y p , , and f and v ed directly the c o mmum c

~ swine - typhoid is as ju ndeter w eevidenceas to pl nOt so

l c o u fse th

all m o ﬁ fo r hat such eat is n t , t deprived Of niost Of its tive a different question e d a id ntical and speciﬁc ise se . the care 10 THE ‘ ‘ 4 VEGETARIAN .

“ bes to w ed u po n t heexa mination o f 1 meat fo r t he us e ‘ of th e jew ish com munity is an' i mportant fac ten in the longev ity of the -race; w hich ‘ is la t‘ present attract ~

- - » in m c nt n and, m i ts £ om ar ative rim g so u h atte io ; p ” ! m o m u b e c e ~ to ch - D r unity fr t r l , whi . 4 G i a Ofﬁc r of H€ait h t er H0lb o r ibbon . the Med c l e m ’ — m d d - inhis las r N a has so arkedly allu e t repo t . turally do d mm f b ut such cases not pro uce an i ediate e fect , their transmission through innumerable generations

m u - ust event ally bring about a decided result , and exercise a considerable inﬂuence in building up the ' m s u h the e ental and phy ical to g ness of J wish people , which has been so long anobject Of Wonder ; and u e s which , in conj nction with th ir steadfastne s , " G e on r h cohesion and valor , o the c side s to be t eir

m m - e chief clai before the judg ent s at of nations . ’ D r Henr B ehr ena in the en/ 2311 . y , y

Medic a l a nd S c ient ific Tes t imo ny I n fa vo r of.

a Veget a r i a n D iet .

r u ed u t re TheI talics ar e not those of the Au tho s q ot , b a ’ u sed to call attention to the mor e r emar kable w or ds or t n u e ti on I t i s not p assages bearing up on the p oin i q s . imp lied that all the authori ties mentioned ar e in favor of

Ve et r ia ism either in theor or ractice. The ar e g a n , y p y

ted to attest acts r ather t hanto en or ceo inions . quo f , f p

‘ PR O F EssOR O W EN a he m . The pes and t onkeys , m an m which nearly rese bles in his dentition , derive her m f raI n t e o f t i staple food fro ruits , g h kernels O m i th e nuts , and ther for s n which most sapid and nutritious tissues o f the vegetab le kingdom are elab

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3 5 11 H RY TH MPS N h e ve ; EN O O , T ge

ee r and m ex o m - h s tabl ate , pure si ple , can tract fr i fo Od all theprinciples necessary for th e growth and of h e as l as the t f support . t body wel for produc ion O nd fOrce 1 1 m m a heat a (p. ) It ust be ad itted as estio n that some persons areStronger thy who live chiefly or altogether o n e We e l s o s (p. hav a ready een that n t all that Is necessary to the human b Ody b e b th e m at supplied y vegetable kingdo solely , but th , ’ " i -r - v a e n t e m t . o s att r of fact , the world s popula io is , a r xt s lage e ent , supported by vege table product e e a i d o f t t e B twe n forty and ne rly s xty egrees la i ud , we find large populations of fine races trained to b e the best laborers in the world o n little moreth an cereal s and legumes ; w ith milk ’ - F ooa a nd F ee as food (p . R R W P . S . s D . . T . . . . i B CAR EN ER , C B F There ample and unexceptionable evidence that where neither milk nor any of i ts prepar ations I s In ordinary use a r e i en i of u nd ; g m consist ng bread , fr its , a herbs

‘ is i quite adequate to the w ants of a population suh

' er n c Onstant sisting by sev e a d toil .

' ‘ PRO F ESSOR L AW REN C E The teeth o f a manh ave

‘ not the s lightes t resemblance to those Of tire c arniva OI o u s im h a en m s an als , except t t their a el i e H o e ses ind the . s e to external surfac ep S S , eed, t eth " ’ ea lZe not d th v Of a canine , but they do excee e le el th e d to ur others , and are obviously unsuite the p poses wh ich the corresponding teeth executein car i r m T e ﬁ d t n vo o us s . ani al hus w n hat , r ethe o whethe we consid r teeth and jaws , r the THE VEGETARIAN .

immed n um o f m a iate i str ents digestion , the hu n s r c m s o f m ae \ o f t ucture losely rese ble that the si i , all ch i l s om l h erb iVa whi ntheir natura tate , are c p etely o ro us fr ivoro us i on P s iolo u h , pp {L l g y gy ,

ELL I t no t o in t o o - B is , I think , g g far to say ,

that every fact connected with the hu man. organiza tion goes to prove that ma n was o I iginally formed a u us o i i i s i fr givoro animal . This p n on pr n c ipally derived from the formatio n of his teeth and d iv a m th e his igest eorg ns , as well as fro character of S ‘ the mb kin and general structure of his li s . ’ na/ton a na D iseas es o { he f eet/z Ed y , f

- N N o l S S . t D R . PE CER THOMP ON physio ogis would d e h o ew ho m i a m an u to isput , wit th s a nt in that o ght e et e n t o f h i s liv on veg abl s alo e , the possibili y doing so Or m m e o r b etteI , that any s w ll under ' “ em etc -D zei iona r f o a syst as . j f

' ’ - ‘ “ esz ieMedicine A rt 1 , . Food .

- HA- h LLER . This food , then , w ich I have hitherto ds e I h as no e crib d , and n which ﬂesh part , is salutary m a ll nonr is/i es m an r s inso uch that it f y a , p otract life

’ to an adv anced perio d and prevents or cures such disorders as are attributable to the acrimony Or

‘ ‘ ' — o n o f o = Ele7nents o Ph s iolo gr ss ess the blo d , f y gy , r VOl VI 1 ; . , p : 99 .

" ' R r t e w h o are me D . F o t hos extre ly n e l a d e _ , ( broke , down is as h ve found no ‘ ‘ i e m all x ' ani al o h - a tOt q e m . a1_ ab et n n t er relief than ; f ro .

' f and m ; r ‘ f t n me ood , fro all so ts O s reg , and fer nted 0 8 R THE VEGETA IAN .

’ e i n . c W c I liquors In about thirty years practi , hi h have (in some degree or other) advised this method I b ut se in proper cases , have had two cases in who I m total recovery have been istaken . ARBUTHNOT I know more than o ne instance of r m ve e i ascible p”assions being uch subdued by a g table diet .

H D - m m an UF . N and ELAN The ore follows ature , n is obedie t to her laws , the longer will he live the ' f m e .th e s h o rter w b e urther he deviates fro thes , ill _

m . . L P o ro his existence lain , si ple fo d only , p m otes moderation and longevity ; while compounded and f I luxurious ood shortens life . nstances of the greatest longevity are to be found among men w h o m i i i ve e , fro their youth , l ved pr nc pally on g ” w h o tables , and , perhaps , never tasted flesh . — L I BI . G s E G rain , and other nutritious vegetable , I u m yield us, not only n starch , sugar , and g , the car b o n which protects our organs from the actiono f i n m oxygen , and produces the organis the heat which m o f e e is essential to life , but also in the for v g table fib rine m m , albu en , and caseine , [the ele ents of] our o m o f o ur bl od , fro which the other parts body are V fi rine . b a m developed egetable , and ni al “ fib rine t m l m , vege able albu en and animal a bu en , hardly differ even in form ; and when they m i m s its are present , the gra inivorous an al obtain in food the very same principles o n the presence of

’ r i o a e d which the nutrition of the ca n v r ntirely depen s . V m egetables produce , in their organis , ni attei m the blood [ ] of all ani als , for the carnivora , in consuming the blood and ﬂesh of the graminivora

THE1’ V ETA' N E G RIA .

' C hairman explained to b e t he ways other peo ple r i n th e r u m t avelled pu s it of health and hu anity , as our ways are evidently the highways towards those d i en s . Th s opened a discussion as to the errors in i h m b s H mm i , , , d_ et wh c with usic y Mis a a ﬁlled the l a l evening p eas nt y and instructively .

A m D r . a t a late eeting , Foote stated th t ha i s m f c F C racter a resultant of any in luen es . ood i S One o f m t ne to b e C on the i portan o s , but hardly s idered in Of a advance heredity. Th t is the first powerf ul factor that stamps its impress o n every i n N C m m l . iv g thing ext o es environ ent , which is a m l r ma e h a a b . s s co ination of severa facto s Cli t , L c s h o S th e , i ky. ws been a large factor in haping Ch t f e arac er o p oples and destiny of nations . Food b e on r xt u fairly deserves to c side ed ne , nless perhaps i e educat on deserves pref rence . “ The remark has been m ade by some experienced b s u i f head of a pu lic in tit tion , that , he could have n h e Of m an entire co trol of t food a or a people , he He th ereb v could decide their character . could , no m r no t he C m We doubt , do uch, p obably all lai ed . are called upon to rem ark the difference between b a m m i t her ivorous and c rnivorous ani als , the a iab li y me a of the for r and natural ferocity of the l tter , but , i n m x Po s while true the ain , there are e ceptions . sib l in m l Ci i s mi y the gorilla , his fa i y rcle , a able a n nd er and et loving husba d , fo fath qui citizen , but , as seen by strangerS (t o him), h is ferocityequals that i e and amo v of the lion and t g r , ng the herbi orous feeders there is also th e unaniiab le and untamable Z b e “ra . m na o i s u a r v e Co ing to ti ns , it tr e th t those whe e g HE” I I I T EGETA I , A “ V R N i t 4 e r ianlI I n do h e e nerall ta V g pre minates , t pe y i s c and a e to v gorou physi ally pl cid m t , as a s he m the latter , perh p t Irish ight d as an Wh o Ca fine exception , and he tches a Tartar , finds , m n o m o m o t a w . mistake n , a h eats al ost n eat Thed c i and c o ntro lab ilit o A ti e o il ty y f sia cs, whos subjection by c arnivorous Europeans has beencited as eviden ce of the energetic qualities imparted by m ve h ad h hara r f e b eat eating, ha t eir c cte orm d y ma as fo d nd b c nturI es sub cli te as w ell by o , a y e of 6 e ti n aut i m j c o . “ to ocrat c govern ent The pn ress tow ard C I viliz atio n du ring thelast few hundred years has been mai nly among th e meat eatin snat- f a n g ions , and this act has served as standi g argum ent for those w h o C laim that such diet is es senia t and ss b u t l to great activi y, energy progre , t , no natio ri has ever exh i b ited such remarkable ability and quickness in all movements of fir earm ; Civiliza i o f w hi su s s I n War s ms t eth r t on, ch , cce ee o b eg eat l m n : b est e e ent , as the Japa ese and , it would pro ably ’ o : o sib l to nd nt ,b e p s e sho w that their aw akening a progress has beenco itlcident w ith o r dependant upon any considerable Change in the dietetic habits of ir teachers int he arts of w ar and manufacture i o o d o e d do m theref re , cannot b regarde as the n i u e d ina t nfl en c in character buil ing , and to deter mine its effects one must C arefully ob serve differ enc es in habits of peoplewhere ‘ other things are ’ equal in the mam N e tw -ne m m w e r am s of o W e bers er p oposed . The Society pr o po seS J to hold some of Its meeti ngs In the C A b 2 rd e h . t . . uilding , 3 str et and 4 avenue .

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h m m the slaug tered oxen were endowed , as it ight see , m n ’ with hu a voice . This is poetic fiction ; but the o f o l o f t h a actual f—east rdinary ife is , a rut , veritable portent that a human being should hunger after the fl e and esh of oxen actually bellowing befor him, teach W t a d upon hat par s one should feast , n lay down ea a h l bor te rules about joints and roastings and dis es . The first m an w h o set the example of this savagery h e r d is t person to arraign ; not , assu e ly , that great m m ind which , in a later age , deter ined to have no do u thing to with s ch horrors . For the w retches w h o first applied to flesh - eating m ay justly be alleged in excuse their utter resource lessness and destitution , inasmuch as it was not to u e m t su erflu ind lge in lawl ss desires , or a ids the p e "t h e in ities of n cessaries , for pleasure of wanton —4 du lgenc e in unnatural lux uries that they th e primeval peoples—betook themselves to carnivorous

habits . If they c o uld ' no w assume consciousness and ‘ S m a m O Go d- peech they ight excl i , blest and loved men ! W who live at this day _ hat a happy age in the ’ h as l am lo t world s history fa len to y , you who plant and reap an inheritance of all good things which grow for you in ungrudging ab undance ! What rich harvest do you not gather in ? What wealth from l n h ’ the p ai s , w at _ innocent pleasures is it not in your po wer to reap from the rich vegetation sur rounding you on all sides ! Ymm ay indulge in lux uri ons food without staining your hands with inno W fo r W our cent blood . hile as us retches , lot was cast in an age of the world the most savage and u We frightf l conceivable . were plunged into the “ I THE VEGETARIAN . I 5

~ midst of an all - prevailing and fatal want o f the c o m monest necessaries of life from the period of the ’ m h earth s first genesis , while yet the , gross at osp ere o f m the globe hid the cheerful heavens fro view , while the stars were yet wrapped In a dense and m m o th e gloo y ist f fiery vapors , and sun [earth] firm e Our b itself had no and regular cours , glo e

a was then a savage and uncultivated wildernes s , per petually overwhelmed with the ﬂoods o t t hediso r derl sh a eless m t a y rivers , abounding in p and i pene r ble m No t orasses and forests . for us the gathering In of domesticated fruits ; no mechanical instrument of F am any kind wherewith to ﬁght against nature . im l ‘ b e ines gave us no t e , nor cou d there any periods - m of seed ti e and harvest . Wh We at wonder , then , if , contrary to nature ,

' reco urse to had the flesh of living beings , when all o ur othe r means o f subsistence consisted in wild r corn [or a sort of grass] , and the bark of t ees , and m mud m s even sli y , and when we dee ed our elves fortunate to find some Chance wild roo t or herb ? When we tasted an acorn or beech - nut we danced I ateful with g joy around the tree , hailing it as our e m S bount ous other and nurse . uch was the gala as m s t fe t of those pri eval day , when the whole ear h o f was one universal scene passion and violence , engendered by the struggle for the very m eans of i ex stence . a But wh t struggle for existence , or what goad ing madness has incited you to imbrue your hands I n — u w h o e blood , yo have , we repeat a sup rabundance of all the necessaries and com forts of existence ? Why do yo u belie th e ground as though it were un I 1 6 T THE VEGE ARIAN . able to feed and no urish you ? Why do yo u do b E despite to the ounteous [goddess] Mother arth , and blaspheme the sweet and m ellow gifts of Dio ny n nOt S m si s , as though you received a ufficiency fro them ? ‘ Does it not shame yo u to mingle m urder and blood with their b enefic ent fruits ? Other ca r nivor e you call savage and ferocious— lions and tigers and serpents—while yourselves come behind them in no f r m m Species of barbarity . And yet o the urder is ' ‘ the onlymeans o f sustenance ; whereas to yo u it is a ’ superfluous l uxury and crime . and lI on For , in point of fact , we do not kill eat s ’ w m - defenc e4 0n and olves , as we ight do in self the ‘ th em unmo lested et contrary , we leave _ ; and y the innocent and the domesticated and helpless and nu — provided w ith Weapons of o ffence these We hunt mn em and kill , who ature se s to have brought into and exi“stence for their beauty gracefulness . N i th oth ng puts us out of countenance , not e m o f m char ing beauty their for , not the plaintive e no t m in sweetness of th ir voice or cry , their ental telli enc e o f not g , not the purity their diet , superior , ity of understanding“ For the sake of a part of their flesh only—we deprive them of th e glorious light of the sun o f the life for which they were f to b orn . The plaintive cries they utter we a fect m are take to be eaningless , whereas , in fact , they entreaties and supplications and prayers addressed to ‘ us by each whi c h say It i s not the satisfaction of n your real necessities we deprecate , but the wa ton i u ndulgence of yo r appetites . Kill to eat , if you

’ must or will but do not slay me that yo u m ay feed lux ur iousl y .

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hare o r a lamb by falling upon and rending them H ne re there and then . aving go through all these p lim inaries then o . , sit d wn to your - repast If , how o u nte ever , y wait until the living and i lligent exist o f it d ence be deprived life , and if woul disgust you to have to rend o ut the heart and shed the life - blood m V o f N a of your victi , why , I ask , in the ery face o f o n ture , and in despite her , do you feed beings endowed with sentient life ? But more than this v m not _even after your icti s have been killed will you eat m m - the just as they are fro the slaughter house . Yo u m m m boil , roast , and altogether eta ‘orphose the m Yo u by ﬁre and condi ents . entirely alter and dis m m the guise _the urdered ani al by use of ten thous and S and sweet herbs pices , that your natural taste may be decei ved and be prepared to take th e nunat

ural food . A proper and witty rebuke was th at of the Spartan who bought a fish and gave it to his Co W ok to dress . hen the latter asked for butter , and Wh olive oil , and vinegar , he replied , y, if I had all ’ these things I should no t have bought the fish ! To such a degree do we make luxuries of blood ‘ ’ - shed , that we call flesh a delicacy , and forthwith ’ h s m d h - ineat a nd require delicate sauces for t i sa e es , “ mix together oil and wine and honey and pickle and s ic es o f S A — vinegar and all the p c yria and rabia for all the world as though we were embalming a hum an

corpse . After all these heterogenous articles have m s m been ixed and di solved and , in a anner corrupted , fo r m h h to m i it is the sto ac , forsoot , ast cate and as m m—if m a b e . A si ilate the it can nd although this y , fo r m m th e the ti e , acco plished , natural sequence is a o f b m variety diseases , produced y i perfect digestion

and repletion . 1 THE VEGETARIAN . I 9

o ne Diogenes (the Cynic) had the courage , on w ol / us occasion , to s allow a p yp without any cooking m preparation , to dispense with the ti e and trouble num expended in the kitchen . In the presence of a ero us concour se of priests and others unwrapped the m m C a to orsel fro his tattered lo k , and putting it his ‘ ’ ‘ m lips For your sakes , cried he I perfor this ex ’ a a trav g nt action and incur this danger . A self m ! N o t Pelo idas sacrifice truly eritorious like p , for m Harmo dius A the freedo of Thebes , or like and ris to eito n o n A g , behalf of the citizens of thens , did the philosopher submit to this hazardous experiment ’ li e m uuba r ba r zee for acted thus that he ight , if pos m l . sib e , the life of hu an kind Flesh - eating is no t unnatural to our physical m ma constitution only . The ind and intellect are de gross b y gorging a nd repletion ; for flesh - m eat and wine m ay possible tend to give robustness to the i mi N o t body , but it g ves only feebleness to the nd . t o incur the resentment of the prize - figh ters [the I will avail myself of examples nearer ' o m ; A h e The wits of thens , it is well known , bestow ’ ’ o i - on us B eot ans the epithets gross , dull brained , ’ ‘ S i and tup d , chiefly on account of our gross feeding . ’ We s m are even called hog . Menander nickna es us ’ ‘ - P m the jaw people . indar has it that ind is a very m ’ ‘ secondary consideration with the . A fine under standing of clouded brilliancy is the ironical phrase of Herakleitu s it Besides and beyond all these reasons , does not seem admirable to foster habits of philanthropy ? Wh o that is so kindly and gently disposed towards beings of another S pecies would ever be inclined to do injury to his own kind ? I remember in conver o f Xeno k rates sation hearing , as a saying , that the I 2 0 THE VEGETA RIAN .

' A thenians im posed a pena lty upon ‘ a man» for ﬂaying

‘ a r s a' iv n b i is sheep alive , and he who tortu e l i g e ng —" little worse (it seem -s ' tot m e) who needles sly m t We h . deprives of life and urders outrig have , it is appears , clearer perceptions of what contrary to propriety and custom than of what is contrary to u na“t re . Reason proves both by our thoughts and b u r desires that we are (comparatively) new to the reek -r o f k reo h a Yet s ing feasts p gy. it is hard , as say Cato , to argue with stomachs that have no c ars ; and the s m n inebriating potion of Cu to has bee drunk , like " ’ i N o w Circe s , with all its deceptions and witcher es . men “ that are saturated and penetrated , as it were ,

‘ s a m t with love of pleasure , it is no ea y task to tte p to

m ﬂesh - o pluck out fro their bodies the baited h ok . W b E “ ell would it eif , as the people of gypt , turning e m d their back to the pur light of day , dise bowelle f their dead and cast away the o fal , as the very source w e m and origin of their sins , , too , in like anner , were to eradicate bloodshed and gluttony from our m i selves and purify the re a nder of our lives . If the irreproachable diet be impossible to any by reason n r m v h of i vete ate habit , at least let the de our t eir

b - in i ﬂesh as driven to it y hunger , not luxur ous m S la o u r wantonness , but with feelings of sha e . y y m “ victi , but at least do so with feelings of pity and s w t pain , not with callou heedlessness and ith orture . For it is sufﬁciently evident that men have indulged ' e t in es their lawless app ti es the pl a ures of luxury , not m e b u t n for necessary food , and fro no n cessity , o ly

o ut d - F r o w ofwantonness , andgluttony , and isplay . [ TeeC elene of f] ul/ wr il ies D euuucia tory a nd D epr e culo ry of tire Pr actice of F lask - ea ting; By How a r d Willia ms M A , J

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It will be noted that hard work when supported by f m m a rational diet has no evil e fect on the hu an fra e . Sir Isaac lived and worked for over eighty - four years before he entered into rest . The following letter written by Pitman in 1 8 7 9 I S a good tribute to the value of vegetari ani sm as a m m We r e ode of life independent of its oral value . print in the vernacular as it might be troublesome ’ Sir m reading to those unacquainted with Isaac s syste .

Sir. A friend suggests to me that I ought to write a Times m x letter to the , placing y life e perience in

u m - u W contrast with the editorial s ming p on Mr . . ’ G - W Times t ibson ard s vegetarian letter in the , of las

‘ 1 : So l n Thursday . The conclusion arrived at s o g as no special call is to be m ade on the strength, a ‘ ’ m a su ﬁi c e m i purely vegetable diet y . As y l fe has o f been one exceptional activity , the fact that is has n a l h been m aintained o - vegetab e diet oug t to be no w i ad known , that a discussion on d et has been m i ed Tif/ties tt into the the . Myd ietetic e x perience I S simply this About forty n m e years ago dyspepsia was carryi g to the grave . Medical advisers recommended animal food three im W t es a day , instead of once , and a glass of ine . On m this regi en I was nothing bettered , but rather

- I m a y grew worse . avoided the e t and wine , graduall recovered m y dige stive p ower and have never since ai m known , by any p n , that I have a sto ach . These fo rty yea rs have been Spent in continuous labor in connection with the invention and pro pa gatio n of my system of phonetic shorthand and pho r netic spelling , cor espondence , and the editorial THE E E 1 2 V G TARIAN . 3

m - five duties of y weekly journal . Though sixty m years of age , I continue the custo I have followed m ffi all through this period , of being at y o ce at six m mm 1 t in the orning , su e and win er . Till I was t o f e fif y years ag , I never took a holiday , or felt that

' I wanted o ne; and for ab o u t tw enty years in the ﬁrst part of this p eriod I was at my desk fourteen hours a m th e m h w day , fro six in orning till ten at nig t , ith o ut m a o two hours for eals . Twenty years g I began o ff to leave at six in the evening . I attribute my health and power of endurance to m m a abstinence fro ﬂesh e t and alcoholic drinks . I can come to no other conclusion when I see the effect o f such extended hours of labor on other m en h m w o eat eat and drink wine or beer , I have written m m m y letter phonetically, as is y custo , and shall feel obliged if it be allowed thus to appear in the

S C P I AA ITMAN .

P/zonetic [ nstilui B alk a7z aa r 2 1 8 a , 7 y 7 , 79 .

’ I ndia s Pest ilenc e.

Although we a dvocate vegetarianism solely on the h w e are l ground of rig t , a ways pleased to be able to prove that it is also best : that it insures health , e m str ngth , happiness and long life ; that it will in ti e m a m cure ost dise ses , and akes its strict followers immune from the attack of the I v arlo us contagious m aladies which carry o ff such a large porti on of the h uman race who die i n childhood or in the prime of en life . Indeed , it is very doubtful if sickness ever TH . E E N V GETARIA .

tered the world until the inhabitants had forsaken the food that w a s so abundantly provided for them

“ and mm to on im and o ne h co enced prey an als anot er , ' th u s placing themselves o n a par with the l owe st c a m m t l ss of ani al life , for it ust be noted tha all the n m high er order o f. a i als subsist entirely on vegetable

food . We t e o f D n have before us h report r. C antlieo “ c n c the pestilen e now raging in I dia , from whi h we extract the following :

‘ ~ All fl esh - eating animals are affec ted b y the v plague , abo e all the rat , while none of the purely ' u m l b i s t k . Of her ivoro s a“ni als at ac ed course , says D r n . a a Cantlie , the r bbit , guinea pig d a numb er of animals can b e inoculated experimentally or m ade m . c b ut to onsu e plague , disease food , no herbivorous animal acquires it b v the natural processes of infec i is b m m t on. If it y consu ption of flesh that ani als are i' nfec ted do m it ? ah , how hu an beings get The im als affected seem to becom e infected from flesh ; ' ‘ th e s nak e m i do m fro the rat , the jackal , p g and g fro eatmg th e flesh of persons d ead- f ro m plague : but h o w does the rat become infec ted ? Could w e find o ut h l i l kno h ow m an is that we s ou d l ke y w infected .

A P lea F o r S inging B ir ds .

I am ash amed to say th at o ne night at dinner I ate ‘ h e h . t ﬁ a thrus It was rst , it shall be the last , of

’ ' ‘ G h 1nu5 1c 1ans t to so u se feat ered pu bad a . I . od s awoke in the early hours of the morning with the beautiful dead and devou red songster o n my con s i h m e e : F - and c ence , and t ese were y r ﬂ ctions ive

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E C M EE F O R 1 8 6 XE UTIVE COM ITT 9 . P ’ nt H W R SC r esia e T TT . , JO N AL E O ’ i - P ia nt MR H M . F Vce r es e S . : irst A I D . , AV LAN ’ na ice- Pres i dent G GE BRU SW C Seco V EOR N I K . er ES A M Y Tr asur . e T M . , CHARL ON GO ER R H Secretar A T U I D . y , R H AV L AN Regula r Meetings held on thefour t/i Tuesday in t ni o /i a t 8 it a venue he nt 9 s . TH R M E 5 7 EGULAR E TING . A th m i Ve t S e t the s7 eet ng of the ge arian oci ty , New Y 8 u 2 6 ork held at 9 Fifth aven e , on January , 1 8 PresI dent S r m m 9 7 , cott in the chai , nine e bers s m n t and three visitors pre ent , the i utes of the las meeting were read and approved . A vote of thanks to the publisher of THE VEG E T I N n h im co n ratu AR A was passed , tenderi g to the g W latio ns S . of the _ ociety upon the good ork done The Committee on Publication stated they had had printed o ne thousand postal cards for the use of the S y m ecretar and had proc”ured a nu ber of copies of Per ec t Wa inD iet w f y , hich were being circulated

am ong friends . Committee on Restaurants called attention to a 2 2 2 Si u restaurant at xth aven e , where vegetarians would ﬁnd good food S S Mr . pencer stated his belief to be that one hould eat freely of those parts of plants containing the

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m Or r without illing , cooking , other dest uctive opera tion . m S the o f ro Mr . Montgo ery poke of plans work p b P P s o f posed y Mr . erkey , re ident the Cereal Ma C o w h tch chine . , would be of great benefit to the m cause of food refor . 1 1 E 2 d A . ntonio Bastida , 9 ast 3 street , and Mrs S L Em ' 1 8 e mem arah . ory , Broadway , were lected bers . m o f Rhinh art 2 u e The na es Mrs . J . , 5 7 Fo rth avenu , M 1 E th and Mrs . ichand , 5 ast 9 street , were proposed as associates . I t was moved that the election of officers for the e m A nsuingyear , postponed fro the nnual Meeting , N m r n in ove be , be the next busi ess . m H mm It was oved by Miss a a , seconded by Mr S a f pencer , th t the persons now holding the o fices of S e m this ociety, be lected to fill the sa e respectively m for the co ing year . Carried . It was moved and carried that the present c o m mittees be continued until their successors be appointed . Miss Hamma was appointed a member of the mm R Vi s Ohlme er Co ittee on estaurants , ce Mi s y It was stated that among the m any full notices of the o f Sir P m l life I_ saac it an late y deceased , only one , Eveni n un a 2 2 Of the g S of Janu ry , stated the fact V m his practical egetarianis . It was moved that the Treasurer arrange w ith the R m 8 A janitor for the rental of oo 5 , 9 Fifth venue , fo r the use o f this Society on the 4th Tuesday of m to the m each onth June eeting . H A . AVILAND . « 1 8 2 THE VEGETARIAN .

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me fo r and no t . that you can punish it , that you will

‘ S O B t i cauSeS th e no ie fail to do . u th s anx ty The s m me to main a i v ff rea ons which co pel _ re p ss e a ord me s uﬂicient a counterpoise to this responsibility . A am no t s I underStand e e lthough I a Chri tian , b tt r than m ost Christians the commandwh i ch I have w 1 itten the n t lettei mm W i at begin ing of his , the co and h ch

i h m n - h so agrees al ke with u an ature and wit rea n. When I was a child I permitted people to teach m e ai t m e n the handiwork of soldiers , the of urd ri g .

N o w i m - at I refuse . I have no des re to urder the mm to m a word of co and. This would be urder gainst m i l . m t e y conscience , and without any persona o v . " ’ ' ‘ Can you tell meOf anythiii g \ w 11icti is mo ré degi ading to a human being than the carrying out of such m u r ? n mm m de ders and slaughter I can either _ co it ur r ’ m see r t yself nor can I bear to a b u e slaughtered . In o rder that no animal m ay 6 6 killed on m y account I i m a r the i t have beco e Vegeta an . In case in po n I can be Ordered to Shoo t people wh o have ne ver done me any harm ; I dono t believe that soldiers learn to S S m th e l and b n hes o f r e: ho“ot i ply at eaves ra c t e s But yo u w ill p erhaps r eply that the N ational G b efOreall sei ves i o f uard else , for the protect on

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‘ c ial o r a niSm if u _ g no abuses co ld b e o n 1n' o r c o c i to fo r f u d _ u so ial relati ns ry ng heaven m d . mi e t t i re ress , if it were not per tt d ha one d es fro hunger while another enjoys every — n o u see m in va yes , the y would e the d of Bu defen ers order . t I refuse to m aintenance of the present s o - called E A THE V GETARI N . 13 !

’ throw sand in one s own eyes ? Both o f us kno w t m quite well what it is o support this order . It eans th e s upport of the ri ch against the working poor wh o are now beginning to recognize th eir right ; Have w e not seen the r ole which your N ational Gua1 ds played 111 th e last strike i n Ro ttei dam when) those Soldiers s tood for ho urs to pro tect the goods of ﬁrms which were threatened And can you believe for one minute that I w o uldc o nsent to defend people w ho ‘ m ﬁrm o n , , according to y . c viction are only sup

r in t he o f , lab o r po t g battle and capital, that I would: consent t o shoot down w orkers w h o are well wit hin the b ounds of the 1r r1gh ts ? Yo u cannot be so blind Wh m f m o re c o m lic ated? y ake the a fair _ p I really cannot pe rmit you to educate m e to become an obe ~ dient N ational Gua rdsm an F o x n b ut i l these reaso s , espec a ly because I hate murder at the word of command I 1 efuse to en ter N i l G a o u the service of the at ona u rd , and beg y to

-1 d. me eit n mno r rm u n , sen n her u ifor , a s as I have the

t r b l n - m al e a e inte tion not to use the . “ VA N D ER VER J K . .

I n m y Opinion this le tter possesses a very deep n b n t m i s meani g. O jectio s o render ilitary serv ce have a ppeared inC h r istianStates since the time when “ m i it s erV1c e r t i o r m o ur l ary ﬁ s ex sted , , re acc ately t t i m e n S s a ed , s nce the ti whe the tates , whose w r st t h i ti po e re s on force , accep ed C r s anity without m v m f freeing the sel es fro the use o force . O f re al C hristians there have always been only a few The r m a o ri o f t he m en h n . g eat j ty in C ristia States are reckoned C hristians because they confess w in’ name the church faith , which is , ho ever , only 1 2 THE 3 VEGETARIAN .

n identical with true Christia ity . The fact that now and th en one of the tens of thousands w h o rendered mi litary service has objected h as not inﬂuenced in s m the“least tho e illions who annually serve . B ut it is im possib le that that monstrous multitude of C hristi ans who render such service Should be in e o i rror , and—that only the excepti ns have r ght on their side exceptions many of them men o f inferior

’ i h o w culture, while archb shops and scholars explain m rvi n m ilitary se ce is not i antagonis to Christianity . S o m o f say the vast ajority people , and , continuing m to believe the selves Christians , they enter the ranks o f m the urderers . m m an h im But here co es a , not a Christian , as he s d m servic e ~ no t elf says , and objects to ren er ilitary , m m m m c fro religious , but fro the ost si ple onsidera tions which concern every one and which every one o f every confession and nationality can appreciate b e Mo h amedan he Catholic , , Buddhist , Confucian , "

S A . paniard , rab or Japanese Had Van der Ver given as reason for his refusal the fact that he belonged to some particular Christ d m ilita1 ian bo y , those who are approaching y service m no no t ight , I belong to sect , and do confess . say ” C h i 1sti ani t . y, and therefore I need not act as he acted ’ Van Ver r m But der s p inciples are so si ple , so clear , and so applicable to every one that VK e must take them m ‘ to ourselves . If we do not , then we ust say , I love m r and am no t m urde , ready to kill , only the ene y , but also my own Oppressed and unfortunate fellow m h country en , and see nothing einous in the obligation

' to kill all those wh om my commander for the time ” n m e bei g orders to kill . And yet everything is so clear .

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I o f m e d l s the essence ilitary s rvice and its iscip ine . Bu t you forget - the responsibility incurred by w h o all v those will not serve . It is ery well to

- m m . Yo u ld . o . Yo u preach artyrdo . are are secure

Yo u i . u through your position . w ll not be s bjected to i u m 1 this tr al . But how abo t those to who you p each w h o trust you , and in refusing to serve ruin their ” young lives ? “ Yes ? I r e l w h o , but what shall I do p y to people am h say this . Because I old , shall I , t erefore , desist “ from pointing out that evil which I recognize as 1 am v lo n o clea I old , I have li ed g and th ught m h L et us an m t he uc . take as exa ple , a robber on bank of a river w h o wishes t o compel one m an to ' m e an h ; S u ' I r n m fc m urd r ot er ho ld ref ai fro , ry g, “ ” - H e s am o u th e he id of old your hand , b cau e I ot r s e ann tou C h c df or the river and c ot be by the robber , because my Interference in all probab ility Will only ' " h im m ? ' I do seew h excite still ore Besides , not y the ' “ ‘ Go ve1 nment w h r , hic pe secutes those who refuse to i m e m w m h e serve , should not pun sh fro ho they av leai am so o ld h t a ned their ideas . I not t a I c nnot be d and n m i i persecute pu ished , and as to y pos t on that ‘i At an am s . no protection y rate , whether I perse

‘ c uted o r not those w ill be condemned and punished to e and so e refuse serv , therefore long as I liv I no t to sa w am in shall cease y hat I now say g . I can m i 1 esc rib es not cease to act as y consc ence p . “ h ia c o n The power. and invincibility of C rist nity in i t in to m o Werf11l m sists th s , hat order beco e p a ong men it no m u W requires support fro o tside . hether o r no t one is old or young , persecuted , if you have assimilated the Christian or the t rue View of life you - T. HE I 1 _ G T A . VE E R A N 3 5 1

f1 o m m cannot recede the de ands of y our conscience . Th erein consists the essenc e nd peculiarity of Chris z a tianity wh encomp ared with all other religious teach in s Th e1:e111 l I t n b g . ies s I vin ci lepower

1 A s - th te e in n u e, s or a fire on _ pp the forest bur s ntil 1t h as n m d h is co su e all t at dry , withered and burn l so a o in ab e , will truth nce expressed words , work t it h s th w h lie and work .un il a destroyed e ole which t he fir m girdles and conceals truth . The e s oulders ” fo r m e S s o u t a ll a long ti , but . as oon as it break that me S o h can be burned is consu d . wit the idea which r i cannot find expression , let it but find clear exp ess on

, a d t h e li e d s c m ; in wo rds, n evil and the spee ily u cu b — One of the private utterances of C hristianity th e m c an S idea that hu anity exist without lavery , existed

c t in h i , no in and was a cep ed C r stianity , but it found “ telligib le expre s sion before the time of the writers w h o d i live at the close of the e ghteenth century . i m not w e1 e Pl o Unt l this ti e only the old pagans , at A e un m and ristotl , able to conceive of hu an society i C h 1 1s t1ans w thout slavery , but other people as well , n “ who are earer us . Thomas More could no t conceive his Utopia

‘ w ith o u t slaver I n m b y. the sa e way at the eginning o f this century it was 1mpo ssib le for m en to think of t he o f m W i life hu anity thout war . It was only after th e Napoleonic wars that the though t that m encould i d H l ve without war was clearly uttere . ardly one hundred years elapsed after the utterance of the idea that men could live without slavery and slavery “had to i i and in n ceased ex st among Chr stians , nothi g like another hundred years war will have ceased to exist It is quit e possible t hat war will not be completely 1 6 3 THE VEGETARIAN .

ab o lished u st l g j as s avery has no t been completel y d ‘ h abolishe . It is quite possible t at military forc e w ill continue to exist just as the wages system c o n n t t he tin es to exist af er abolition of slavery , but neither will war nor the army assume that shape so repugnant to reason and moral feeling which it has at present . m i m a And nu erous signs ndicate that this ti e is ne r .

These signs are seen . in th e confused condi tion of governments who are perpetually increasing the ir m m i n ar a ents , in the ever ncreasi g weight of the bur d o f di th e in ens taxation , in the scontent of people ,

‘ the a the v terrible de dliness of artillery , in acti ity of c s b ut pea e societies and congres es ; above all , in the r to s t e a refusal of single pe sons erve . In his r fus l l o n ies the key to the solution of the questi . — Every recognition of the truth o r better express x r m r th e o f ed , every liberation f o any e ror , as in case slavery- will always be productive of a h ard batt le between the consciousness of m en and the attraction f m o n o for er conditi s . At ﬁrst the attraction is so strong and the con sc io u s ness so weak that the ﬁrst attempt to lib erate m h n o f ad fro error is only greeted with s aki gs the he . m w e The new truth is stig atized as nonsense . Can live without slavery? Wh o will work then ? C a n w e live without carrying o n war ? Everyone will come ” and 11s the er conquer . But pow of conscience rises , n n a h attractio weake s , and in pl ce o“f the eadshaking w e m m H l S have ockery and conte pt . The o y crip i l and v S tures recogn ze ord ser ant. uch relations

a d , have lways existe . And now wise people have been found who will turn the whole world ups ide

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r t o out th e b d n Or s l m s of b ick fall of uil i g , a ing e e h ne t o v l th e m anmen c l the t unra e , and e b k t o lapses,

‘ - u l . the o intw o S a the b ilding fal s and net g es . uch W me 15 ctio Vander drop of ater , brick or sh the a n of Ver O r m t w h of Van der . the refusals us follo t at Ver and m 1nc reas1n nm th e , g u bers , and as soon as m 1S e e u h ve on nu ber larg no g those ry pers s , and ' '

m i s e on Who eSterda Said t a it . w as their na e l gi , y y h t - ’ " ' impo ssib leto do Without w ar w ill s ay t hat they h aVe " long preached against its immorality and unreason ” ' ‘ ’ ‘ b and advise o u ac t as Vander Ver h as a leness , y to

‘ th at fro m w ar and m o m m acted, so ar y in; the f r

‘ ’ i h now e eo m i wh c they xist only a r c llection will re a n .

R eview s .

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We aree no t rev1ew m s a s m b e g our elves , ight sup

' b th e he a ' e andxw e nc re posed y ading; but larg r , si e ly; ‘

" ' r o f s me nam s e n hope , a bette work the a It i b tte

‘ ‘ because it ‘ comes once a ~~yveek ins tead p f - o nc ez a

’ month and therefore should b e pr odu ctive o f m o rer " ' ‘ We e e h n o n after i o ur a er w a s good . r coll ct w e s o p p — f « started it was obj ected to . o n the » ground that there .

‘ ‘ ’ / a ez z z 1 r . ed already w s a Vz g c r mz n the ﬁeld ; werepli that. “ we were glad to hear it and trusted that befo re long there would be a vegetarian paper published In every city o f the world The paper before u s consists o f sixteen large pages and cover and is published at one penny a week ; from the style o f it we Should say that it was " 1 1 11. Er a RI A N 1 1 v o , , 3 9

pi 1n01pa11y sold o n stands and 111 book stores as we do no t note anyspecial notice of yeai ly rates but w e no do b ut d l i w i l , have ubt that a ol ar b ll l secure it for a year and we earnestly ad vise all our readers to subscribe ; yo u cannot get too many vegetarian papers and more than yo u c an read gi ve them thus accomplishing two good dee rs th at certainly requ ire' th e h and do mg your r share to spre uth .

MOORE .

refrigh tful to thephiloso pher an u nc o nsm s tr ed1 s of m s t h the o u ag e _ hu an rea on . omnamb u li s ts S tu piﬁed b y thelong night 1nstinc t of w h it the m m n is of out hic arose , hu an i d

. h w a t e li and o, only alf a ke t h world of rea ty duty . * Gc 01 e Wa sh 1n to 1 w as t e o f g , , g h father his country and a great and good b ut he heldhuman beings s and i s 11 i h i as slave pa d hi Virgin a w skey . It took Americ ans years to ﬁnd out that all n d E i Men w h o me inclu es thiop ans . risk their e personal and poli tic al liberty r ib eratel o m w w o nen to fo , bl ack y do hite a m a t m an l i ve m si il r servi ude . A rich _ wil g illions of l a m u or un1vers1t do l rs to a use m a y, when he would n w t the k o , if he had the talent to s op and think , that t m a k s housands who ke his wealth , wor like wretche m m e a , fro orning till night and f ed on g rbage and 1 0 THE 4 VEGETARIAN .

ff r th at m a m nf su ocate in garrets , in o der he y be u i ic n e t .

B ut m inc o nsist , without doubt , the ost frightful ency of civilized minds to day is seen inthetrea tment acco rded by h uman beings to their sub - human asso H m n n w ciates . u a nature is o here so hideous and the human conscience is nowhere so profoundly asleep as in their ruthless disregard for the life and

i - i l I t is m n m . happ ness of the non hu a an a w—orld enough almost to make villains weep the cold m blooded anner in which we cut their throats , dash o ut their brains and discuss their ﬂavor at our canni “ b alistic A Pluta1 ch s i i feasts s ays , l ons , t gers and serpents we call sa vage and fe1 001o us yet we our m n i b ai b arit selves co e behi d them in no spec es of y. From our cradle up we h ave been taught that mercy m and t he r 1s a to the la b heife a disease , and we h ve become so accustomed to deeds of violence and as s assinatio nthat we perpetrate them and see them

' r a W i h d pe petr ted t o ut t he semblance of a shu der . See that dainty lady going down the aisles of the cathed ral ! S he lo oks in h er silks and loveliness the o f n n very picture purity and in oce ce. But look o u closer , and y will discern in her faultless art the disfigm em ent o f crime See those furs ! They did no t fall like snowflakes from th e bounteous lap of n r d m t he heave . They we e strippe fro quivering form o f some out raged northern creature to whom cl L at life and happiness were as ear as to her. ook her head - dress ! Those fl uttering wings are the re mains o f song - birds Whose beauty and joy once filled r the woods and fields . But thei throats were silenced and their beautiful and happy li ves ended forever to

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' ‘ many plac es rival squads of armed m en Scour fo res‘t

1 i i11 dis c1im inatel m assac rein v 11V. and pra r e , y g e ery

' tha i s no t to c e em and fo in 6g creature t able es ap th , r

' i 1 h um aner u r th an ust t r s no h gher o _ p p ose: j o eewhich side can kill the I S a c ri m e u np aralleled on the N o e of ma the face of earth sp cies ani l , _ ex n n u - o ffat r c i ~ ce t . ma to t o t { i p , plu ges s ch dep hs y. t s

’ ~ ‘ bad eno ugh inall c onsc iencefor one b eing to send f a; _ b r bullet through the ain tear;

e b ni u for s me are perpetrat d y orga zed packs j st pa ti , it becomes an enormity beyond characterization ! L ook at the scenes to be m et with inal l our great ar e o h h rr1f ’ c itiesl They en ug to , o y a heart o f ﬂ1nt ' in a e” An army o f b utchers standing blood . nkl deep m i n and working the sel ves to ex—hau st on cutti g t he throats Of their h elpless fellows unsu specting oxen m e n u t th e with li pid ey s looki g p. a deadly pole axe and a m oment later lying a q uiver under its 1 elent — less thud struggl1ng swine s“ingi ng by their hinders with their life leaping f1 om their gash ed jugulars an atmosphere in perpetu al chu1 n with the groan s

’ e m e —i streezts rt ro n ed t and y lls of the assa—cr d h g wi h unp ro c es sio ned funerals everywher e co 1 pses dang ling from s aleh ook s o r sprawling on chopping - blocks ' — 1 i i m en and women kneeling n gh tly by the r. p llow sides and congratulating th em seh es :o n th eir White " ness and ri sing each m orning and leaping on th e — bloody remains of som eslau ghtered c reature s u ch are th e spectacles inall our st reets and stock yar ds, " and such are the eno rm1ties per pet rated day a fte r day by Christian cannib als o n' the defenseles s dumb ones of this world ' T 1 HE: ,VEGETARIAN . 43

It is simply monstrous—this horrible savagery and m m m m so na bulis in which w“e grope . It is the cli ax f m a — e o undane inf myf th paragon of the d ozing o n the p edestal111 1113 im agin ation and c o n templating h imself as aninterstellar pet and all other ei omm L et u rt v . s b ngs as c odities sta le oursel es , us c a n th e t those of who n, to a realizatio of holocaus w e are perpetrating o nour feathered and fur covered nd m mb th m m m e frie s . For re e er esa e senti ent of sy ' pathy and fraternity that b roke the black m an s ’ m and i s to day melting th e white W oman s _ anacles ‘ - m m a th e s o rrel r chains will, to orrow e ancip te ho se he s o m and and the heifer , and as t age bl o the great s e On e wheel of the centuri s grind , all the rac s of the h m eart shall beco e kind and this age of ours , so b i r aw a mem d i goted and , sh ll be re bere nhistory as i m m u m d an age o f nsanity; so na b lis and bloo .

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ﬁnds that he has disco vered a good thing ; a system of living which enables him to reduce h is ex pendi r tu e , increase his working capacity , enjoy perfect health and look forward with certainty to long life , thereby securing a great advantage over his fellow w m , . orkers and then keeps his good , fortune to hi self Vegetarianism is not good because it insures all n these blessings , but because it u ites us in bonds of m love and sy pathy with all created beings , be they higher or lower in the scale of life than ourselves . THE V m im EGETARIAN akes no cla to originality . It deem s it a crime to use inferior language to convey an idea that has been better expressed by others . It it freely takes all that ﬁnds good in the works Of others , c e ff t giving due redit ther for , and O ers all of its bes t d m to all , with or wi hout acknowle ge ent . THE V N o EGETARIAN has no axes to grind . desire m m n no t v to b u t to ake o ey , e en pay expenses , simply to do the g reatest possible good with the means at the disposal of it s publishers ; THE VEGETARIAN doe s no t set itself up as a stan a m dard , or advoc te its clai s to the exclusion of other m ’ i papers on the sa e subject . It freely advert ses all that is good in vegetarian literature and advises its r m readers to buy , acco ding t“o their eans , every e paper published advocating on earth peac , good — m en _ m will towards and ani als . If you can help to support it we think it your duty d m to o so according to your eans . If you cannot affo rd to buy it many of our readers will be glad to f r pay for it o you . If there is any num ber which you think specially appropriate for any public meeting we Will forward O f if free charge , and out of print , reprint for the

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Th e Et h ic s o f D iet .

B eing a n addr ess deliver ed in GiZﬁ/Za n Memor ia l ek a dee onS unda F eér ua r 2 8 1 8 C kur . , , y , y , 97

B Y D ALBERT BROA BENT . I have an unpopular message to deliver to you h to t is evening , and will ask you to listen it in the P 8 S . pirit of hilippians iv . “ W v s ru w hatsoe er thing are t e , hatsoever things are honorable , whatsoever things are just , whatso ever things are pure , whatsoever things are lovely , : whatsoever things ar”e of good report Brethren , i think on these th ngs . I w ish that my address to yo u might be as b eauti ful as the words I have ju st asked you to keep in m ind . I have been generously permitted by your kind and broad - minded pastor to address you o n a matter n to me E o f of deep concer , the subject of the thics

Diet . n E The dictionary renderi g of the word thics is , S e m m that it is the cienc of oral duty , a syste of u n o f men r les for regulati g the actions , and I desire to talk with yo u o n the reg ulation of our actions in n thi gs relating to diet . I am sure there is no need that I Should apologize fo r introducing such a subject in this church , and on no t this day . It has been forgotten by the pastor m m and the e bers of this church at any rate , that m P religion clai s the body as well as the soul . ure m food akes pure blood , pure blood a healthy body . 8 1 4 THE VEGETARIAN .

o i leSS The healthier the b dy , the health er and sickly

' o ur religion will be ; and if there is any truth in the G m a m an SO er an proverb th t as a eats , is he , it m a m m y be assu ed that entally , physically and

m d . orally , we are influenced by the foo we eat Doub tless but few of us worshipping here this even ing have thought that the science o f ethics m ight be applied to our eating . And yet there is an ethical m t P ’ S . way of eating , in line and agree ent with aul s beautiful words , true . honorable , just , pure , lovely , ma and of good report , a plan of eating which y be ’ bla izzeless lain s associated with life s g . Everywhere around us we feel there is a move m m m en ent towards fuller and ore worthy life , true m and wo en are striving to win for others , less privi le ed g , the chance of living the better life ; a desire to bring the time of which Willi am Watson sings in his ’ m il /z r onzele poe in the D a y C last week . I quote one verse m S Fiercely sweet as stor y prings , Mighty ho pes are blowing wide ; P i refi u rin s ass onate p g g , Of revivified a world . Dawning thoughts that ere they set

Shall possess the ages yet . There are many present here who have seen words m m like these co e true , and who have also seen any a l ’ m . _ A social wrong , ignob y die nd any social evils m m these days are tre bling , for the fer ent is in the Of i air . And one the ﬁrst evils to go will be the sp rit o f war ; even now we see and feel the time that is m co ing . And i then , dear friends , I yearn with pass onate

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Ho w to m woful , how saddening think of so uch o ur m cruelty associated with food , food to any of our minds seemingly needful for the nourishment of our bodies . D O we ever ask whence the ordination of these f o ur ? things , these su ferings caused to lower brethren Has Go d ? no ordained it our hearts answer , we think Him tender of as , loving , gentle and desiring not the f He i o . death any creature has not orda ned it , but ’ “ m i is m L yet per its it , the ev l of an s ordaining . ove G ’ P is od s essence , says hilip Bailey , and love de f lights not in sorrow and su fering . The feeling which has grown more and more upon m e I m uh s that these custo s are all wrong , because O did no t o ne necessary . nce I feel this way , but day I began to think of it all and conscience became the m m to a very tyrant , until deter ination ca e leave these custom s behind ; no w my position is like that m an m and m of the who Christ healed , ade to see , m and who , when questioned about the iracle that him “O had been wrought upon , said , nce I was m . A blind , now I see nd any of us are blind to the cruelty ab out us because we do not permit ourselves f to think o it . Far be it from me t o assume a Spirit of self - right eou sness o r superiority in presenting th ese thoughts to yo u on a subject ab out which I have so deep con “ cern . Flesh eaten as food contains no wondrous m is fo r m agic force , as food it only valuable the che m m ical ele ents it contains , and these sa e properties are found abundant in the foods that come direct m w fro the fruit and vegetable orld ; fruits , nuts , ufﬁ cereals , pulses and vegetables are quite s cient for 1 1 THE VEGETARIAN . 5

’ s uﬂi c ient the body s needs , and being for nourish m m m m - unnec es ent , to y ind , they ake ﬂesh eating

‘ c sary , and the ruelty thereby caused wrong . Shelley held that to kill animals and eat their flesh ’ N law was to break ature s , and that she avenged herself by sowing in the bodies of men the germs o f m disease and isery . We all know that much harm comes to uS through m the use of the flesh of ani als as food . I hope I shall have succ—eeded in helping yo u to see that the Science of Ethics a system o f morals -_ m ay be applied even to such a commonplace thing as eating . If we can lessen pain o r suffering in the lives o f a those round us , it is our duty as sincere Christians so m to do , to have our gar ents clean of stain in Let uS n m these things . be conte t to leave ani als to N m th at ature , to stop breeding the , and cease to feel m u th e we can only keep the in place , and s stain h m balance of nature by eating t e . Many of us are seeking to e njoy healthier and ’ l N u am t s . happier lives , e us seek it at re way I glad to be able to tell you that I have seen m any a foul disease go its way before the po w er of a Simple and pure diet . Ho w to we long and search find the way to health , S b ut l wearily we toil and pend and search , wrong y. m My friends , the way to health is a si ple and easy o ne H S to go , it is like the way to eaven that cripture so S m man tells us , Is i ple that a wayfaring though rr a e . fool in other things , need not therein But this way lies not o ver a path bestrewn with b ut physic bottles , pill boxes , and patent foods , by 1 2 THE 5 VEGETARIAN .

h n eating pure food , breat ing pure air , and Observi g cleanliness . I take much comfort often when I think of som e w h o of i have gone this way . The singers “undy ng m en w h o m songs , have left behind the thoughts d h that breathe and wor s t at burn . The founders of m the literature of the present day , who in ti es of to sated luxury and ease , preserved the power think and S S m S men ing by living the i ple life . uch as P Pl S O P S lato , utarch , ocrates , vid , ythagoras , eneca , H esiod , and a host of others . Since I began to live this way there has come into m m y life uch peace and tranquility , now as I take m m m y hu ble eal , I can dwell on every detail of its od pr uction with pleasure and gladness , because it m l Ho w if co es through gentle and kind y ways . d fer m d b ent fro the olden ays , when it used to be a la or to t f m try and forge the su ferings of the ani als . And ’ now I see the truth in Words w orth s beautiful words where he implores u S

Never to blend our . pleasure or o ur pride W th e m ith sorrow of eanest thing that feels . With Coleridge that He w h o prayeth well , loveth well , m an Both and bird and beast . He prayeth best , who loveth well , m All things b oth great and s all . L For the dear ord who loveth us , He m ade and loveth all . Sings Emily Dickenson If I can stop one heart from breaking

I shall not live in vain . o ne o r If I can ease life the aching , cool one pain ,

1 I 5 4 THE VEGETAR AN . ians and was so situated that he was enabled to devote a large part Of his time to the spread of the m S O S refor he had close to his heart . Mr . orley has long been suffering with an incurable disease and it was solely owing to his vegetarian diet that he was s enabled to withstand its ravages o long . The last few days of his existence were embittered so n ih by the conduct of an unnatural , who , we are m Of for ed , took advantage the weakened condition of his parent and forced him to pollute his body with b m to various ﬂesh products , which proba ly did uch

hasten his death . Many persons were surprised to ﬁnd a sensational ’ So rle s ub lishedi n notice of Mr . y death p practically S m co m every paper in the United tates , and any ments were made and i nq u1r1es instituted as to what great inﬂuence could have been exerted to secure such widespread publicity to a sim ple family ‘ b e ement reav .

’ no w m So rle We are infor ed that Mr . y s son is in m he m A C o . t the e ploy of r our , Chicago slaughter All to ers . honor our departed friend , for in his life he must h av ex c ut h eavily into the unholy proﬁts of

m - m him the ulti illionaire pig sticker , to have induced to spend the su m of money necessary to secure such m wide publicity to the death of a si ple vegetarian . The day has gone by w hen people can be frightened into returning to the disgusting food they have dis m at carded , by the announce ent that last they have learned of the death of a vegetarian who died before

he reached his hundredth birthday . The ﬁendish m m howl of exultation will do ore har than good . Were we inclined to be personal w e could point o u t THE R 1 VEGETA IAN . 5 5 the fearful effects o f a ﬂesh diet in those who are

- near and dear to this fearful butcher , if such a feel S m ing is possible in a laught er an .

R ec ipes . — MA C ARONI SOU R Half a pound of N aples maca one Of m m one roni , quart ushroo s , two turnips ,

m - S onion, three Jerusale artichokes , one dessert poon ’ - ﬂo ur m ful of potato , quarter Of a pint of crea , and f m m four ounces o bread cru bs . Boil the acaroni in two quarts of water , with a teaspoonful of salt and a m W s all piece of butter . hen tender , drain the water m fro it ; wash it in fresh water , lay it in a clean cloth m t for a short ti e , and cut it in pieces abou an inch in W m m m length . ash the ushroo s without paring the or cu tting Off the stems ; put them in a pan with — three quarts of water the turnips , onions , arti m m chokes , bread cru bs , ace , pepper and salt ; boil m f h m the till the vegetables are perfectly so t , rub t e S th e through a ieve , return soup into the pan , put in m th o the acaroni , set it on ﬁre again , stir in the

- ﬂo ur m potato , ixed with a little cold water , till quite smooth ; add a little cayenne pepper and salt as re q uired; and w hen It has boiled ten minutes add the m crea . — m S K E. . EA AL The short , thick kale is the best Tri o f it nicely , and tie it in bundles . Boil it in plenty W water , with two ounces of salt . hen tender , drain it in a clean cloth ; lay it neatly in a dish upon toast ed bread , which should be previously di pped in the u water , and serve with butter sa ce . 1 6 I 5 THE VEGETAR AN .

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m m - i eleven e bers and twenty three Vis tors present , the minutes of the last meeting having been read the m hinh ar d m . R election to e bership of Mrs and Mrs . e Michand was announc d . M m . . A . Mr C ontgo ery , in discussing the topic A V ia i m ggressive egetar n s , stated that there were to u : five duties we owed the ca se join a society , pay m i t and the dues , attend eet ngs , distribute litera ure , exert a personal influence . Hem i u P i V S Judge p , res dent of the egetarian ociety s m of Minneapoli , said that food refor was at the m a ll m He botto of and the inspiration of refor s . m saw before hi thirty vege—tarians surrounded by a population of two m illions a truly small Center of influenc e— m a m yet , they y be doing ore than is

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A th m V S New t the s9 eeting of the egetarian ociety , Y H 8 ork , held at their all , 9 Fifth avenue , on Tuesday , 2 1 8 P e S March 3 , 9 7 , resid nt cott in the chair and H W m ﬁft Dr . olbrook , the Countess acht eister and y ﬁv e o f m others present , the reading the inutes of the m o n m m last eeting was , otion of Mr . Montgo ery , m o itted . m W . A The Countess acht eister , who with Mrs nnie Besant is m aking a tour of the world in the interest S to of the Theosophical ociety , was introduced speak “V i m upon egetar anis in the light of Theosophy . She stated Sh e had been a vegetarian for seventeen years ; it was necessary to be such for Sh e leads a O f m life hard work with uch travelling , using for the m i past six onths , wh le traveling , a diet of fruits ,

nuts and brown bread . In the constitution of m anth ere are four distinct : S bodies the physical , which hould be considered as m n n a te ple for the dwelli g of the soul , and he ce it is it our duty to keep . clean and pure by the use of

grains and fruits ; the astral , which is fed by the m n i o f o ur psychical e a at ons food , it is therefore nec essary to eat fruits and grains which ripen in the u m i fed s nlight ; the ental , wh ch is on thoughts we m th e assi ilate as our own ; spiritual , which is the body of light taken into the heavenly state and is fed

on spiritual thoughts . There are many reasons why we Should be vege tari ns a . l Meat eaters are liab e to disease . The growth o f vegetarianism In England is 1 THE VEGETARIAN . 5 9 alm ost incredi b le ; there are so many restaurants m m h e m with custo ers waiting , and it see s that t ore restaurants there are in London the more they are

ﬁlled . It is true that no vegetarians have been found in n r o . prison , in the workhouse , drunk w to Theosophists consider it rong take life , therefore they eat . only fruits , cereals , etc . , in which

- life is latent , but without blood . “It is awful to eat flesh when we consider the f rightful amount o f agony endured in a city to su pply m m an h is o w n b u the eat . If every were tcher , every v one would be a egetarian . “ Agony o f anim als befo re slaughte r produced ir r itatio n to their psychic nature and that effects the flc sh nature of those who eat their . “ ’ m the v Flesh is a sti ulant , while egetarian s diet ’ E o n o ur nourishes . volution goes and bodies grow o f “a finer nature . b ut Many try to be vegetarians fail , thinking m suffi they ust eat vegetables only . This is not a c ientl The im y nutritious diet . an al within you m fo r e ih craves for eat , and a few we ks there is an th e tense desire for flesh . Treat case naturally make the change gradually and soon the craving for

ﬂesh will cease . L H “ Dr . M . . olbrook read a paper upon A Bal anc ed Diet , which will be printed in full in the our na l o Hea th next issue of his j f l . N H Hemiu and m m Judge . . p others ade re arks upon the increase of the m ovement of food reform

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1 6 2 I A THE VEGETAR N . m ay be perfect its components must b e correlating m m and equilibriu . An excess or diminution in either impairs the in te rit g y and perfectness of the whole . We occasionally m eet with persons in whom o ne f o f m m s o the aspects health is abnor ally e pha ized . In such instances th e remaining two principles m We m a e see notably weakened . y hav seen indi vidu als whose ambition w as to attain to a high state of physical health with extreme muscul ar develop me nt . These persons have but little tastefor higher cul ture and i gnore everything pertaining to the psychic “ men w or sup“ersensuous , preferably of bra n rather men s: o r m a a et than of brain , we y h vem others m who , intensely devoted to ental culture , have neg

lec ted the physical aspect - Of health and exhibited an : e c n undeveloped physique the pal fa e , arrow chest , stooping shoulders and dragging step taking the place of those Opposite conditions which suggest a b is indeed at m vigorous physical ody . There h ti es , a prevalent air o f disorder and bodily neglect about

' them unpleasant to witness ; or we m ay enco unter w h o m m a d others , ﬂoating away in ystical real s n

striving to penetrate within the veil of the unseen , unwisely neglect to c ultivate tho se mental and phy sic al graces which render them ﬁt and desirable m O m am co panions . nly when equilibriu and h r ony w m S prevail bet een the physical , ental and piritual ’ do we view the complete emhoo z ment o f the principle Y we are now considering . our attention is invited to Ph sica l th e ﬁrst y health . I trust you will pardon emphasis w hich m ay be laid upon this part of my H N 6 T E VEGETARIA . 3

b m r t Of su ject and y ve y prac ical way treating it . m a b m Behind the sto ch , in front of the a do inal aorta

— - the great artery w hich conveys the b lood t o all the the m — viscera , and lower extre ities lies a large net work of nerves and nerve ganglia ; o r knots from

' h r e - to nearl ever o f whic b anches ext nd y “ y part the m m S P u body . Its anato ical na e is the olar lex s , fr om its divergent branches which radiate from a h e ’ center analogous to t sun s rays . It has been “ called the abdominal b rain as it seems to be the e s ub i s at of a consc ous intelligence . th e i Its branches extend to all v tal organs , control m Of s m and odify the processes digestion , a si ilation , ab sorption and elimination and through connecting channels extend to those ne rves w hich proceed from S the brain and pinal cord . ’ It is this great c enteI which pr es za es over a ll the emot zo/zs and plays an important role 1n the realm of m m drea s . Certain physical and ental conditions which are usually referred to the hea r t originate in l m c o nsid the so ar plexus . The heart , anato ically m m ered , is si ply a double acting force pu p which keeps the vital ﬂuid in circulation through the blood ‘ channels by the ryth mic al c ontrac tio no f its m uscular walls and the a ction of its four valves in response to ’ the nerves within its subst ance which are in direct connection with the solar plexus . “ ' The solar plexus and not the heart is the seat o f f i the a fections , and their antithes s the baser passion . As this nerve plexus is in intimate relation with the s toma ch it happens that any abnormal condition of the latter organ seriously affects the functions of m the for er . T G T A I . 64 HE; VE E R AN

Wh - ﬁve n O en we realize that seventy per ce t . f m a me m m hu an il nts originate in the sto ach , it beco es Obvious that a norm al condition O f the digestive organ is essential to the physical welfare of the ih dividual . As man i s obliged to function through his body On

his s m ental d this plane , and s piritual health dep en m m o uch upon an uni paired physical conditi n , equally depends his physical well - being upona normal men diﬂi c u t c i tal state . It would be l to once ve Of a chronic dyspeptic as a broad theologi an or an ad v anc d i S m h m o r e sc entist . i ilarly , one w ose ental Spiritual health w as I mpaI I ed would not enforce those

’ hygienic rules so essential to a sound physical body . The effects of a neuralgia o r slight pulmonary lesion would be minor compared to the diffused inﬂu ence m t of a diseased sto ach , his organ being , as we h ave “ nln I m r see , nti ate elation with the solar plexus , ” that great center of the sympath atic nerve sys tem presiding over all the functions - O f the animal L m t i t body . ittle argu en is needed to establ sh he i mportance o f keepi ng thefood receptacle in a m h healthy state . The sto ach is lined wit a delicate membrane which is studded with glands and trav ersed a by nerves. These gl nds supply the digestive f n ﬂuid o the body and u pon their functioni g properly , T digestion depends . his digestive act is a process Of reduction whereby the coarse particles swallowed are To dissolved in the gastric juice . facilitate this act ion the muscular walls of the stomach keep its C On m We tents in continuous otion . unconsciously illus — trate this process when w e stir o ur tea or coffee to m i b No w . dissolve the sugar . as uscular act on is y

1 6 6 THE VEGETARIAN .

Some o f the w aste products pass o ff through the O lungs as C I and about o ne third 1S eliminated by the skin as insensible pers piration Through the lungs the blood receives 0 1ygenwhich is conveyed by the microscopic red blood corpuscles the little ”— oxygen wagons through the action Of the great m a ll m force pu p , the heart , to parts of the syste . Upon this supply O f oxygen all the varied manifesta o ur m a b tions of life depend . That houses y e rm m m a r in wa ed , or that a stea engine y wo k , certa w e for c o m b u s factors are requisite , fuel , a place m ﬂue w hic h tion , a good draft , and a s oke serves the two - fold purpose of creating a draft and con v eying a w ay th e unappropriated products of c o m u tio n Wh ? b s . y Because in the fuel is stored —o r — t potential possible energy , in pas ages it derived m s un fro the , which can be released only by burning o r m m i n i oxidation . It ust be consu ed an appropr

ate place , otherwise the heat energy would be f di fused into space and not utilized . A draft is requisite as it is by this means the oxygenpasses in

' m m flue is nec es and supports co bustion . A s oke w o f - m sary , other ise the deleterious products i perfect no t m oxidation would be re oved . E and b dail very housekeeper engineer know y , y experience that if the furnace is crowded with fuel and the draft left closed there will be no fire; that although the fire is properly fed and the damper m Open , no better results will be obtained if the s oke i p pe is clogged ; and still further , that although the i o furnace is intell gently operated , if the fuel is po r

t he desired result i . d w ll be but partially reached

H c . A en e the necessity for good fuel gain , with N 1 6 THE VEGETARIA . 7

b no t all the a ove conditions fulfilled , if the fire is systematically freed from ashes and these removed m im b m N th e . o w achine will in t e eco e inoperative , e he m this furnace r presents t hu an body , for in each , ’ za entzea l certainprocesses are nearly . In our bodies we literally ba r n food to release the energy stored and m a therein , , that good results y follow , certain "t it ai e i ien cond ions requis te , suitable food , plenty O f o xygen and a free exit for all deleterious products m a x Let u S o f the ani l o idation . consider first the fuel . The housekeeper prudently fills his bins with ' ood b im g coal to be urned in his s ple cast iron furnace , but thoughtlessly supplies his larder with a c o nglo m crate o f food stuffs w idely varying in q uality and digestibility to be consum ed in his com plex and D d o r manu fa delicate body . i the housekeeper c t urer attempt to heat his house o r run his factory with the refuse of his kitchen he would excite reason a s h e m ble doubt as to his sanity , but can ake a waste receptacle of his com plex digestive apparatus with out endangering his claim to intelligence and good m h is m W judg ent , and deluge internal anato y ith a m b heterogenous ass of whiskey , wine , randy , porter , f t tea , co fee , soda wa er , ginger ale , root beer , punch , milk and buttermilk combined w ith an indiscriminate m m i assort ent of solids ad libitu , expect ng thereby to m i fire a ntain the life long and bright. Many persons attend to their own heating apparatus and before retiring a dd a few shovels of clean coal to their fire knowing that it will enhance their personal comfort m during the night . This duty discharged how any visit their p antries and stoke the internal furnace Sli o f o with , say , a ce cold roast or b iled beef, or a 1 6 8 THE VEGETARIAN .

em rib r t pting spare , or a po tion of a fowl , or their inquisitive eyes detect some chicken or lobster salad m left over fro dinner which is at once appropriated . Po ssib lya w s ectio n o f m ince p ie m ay fall into line and be accompanied on its ( lo/or ous journey by a b it of m i ma cheese , and further te ptat on y be aroused by the silver Sheen of the sardine or the variegated hue Of o m i the bologna . As gastron ic act vity awakens — thirst relief is sought in a draught Of milk an ex — c ellent but jealous food o r a bottle o f the univers al la er no w 1 m m g . They seek the r cha bers aybe; to mm “ co une with , their higher nature will posi tiv el o n y decline to be interviewed , or to meditate the varied and complex problems which daily engage th m m H n e hu an ind . opelessly they wa der round c i the outer walls of the subjects , entran e to the nner “ n i n courts bei g den ed . Finally wrap pi g the drap ” ery of the c Ouc h about them they lie down to ’ tr onblea m r drea s , awake with an , indesc ibable ﬂavor m w onder ' th at no t in the outh , and they do feel just

right . S m m a m I S o o e one y exclai this only ordinary fo d , and though we m ay limit our furnace to one variety n o ur m of food , we ca not so restrict sto achs . True , but we c an care for our food receptacle as well as m i our ﬁre box , and no ore abuse the del cate walls of Of the one than the ﬁre brick surface other . If we crowd ourselves with t he mass Of food represented b m no t m y an ordinary enu , entioning what would be ’ o r su er a chef d oeuvre of a dinner pp , we release agencies which ultimately must injure the abused m organ , but if we de and only reasonable work , on a imited d and judiciously selected supply Of foo , we

THE VEGETARIAN .

A ll m a . S st nce ani al substances , if eaten , hould be

subjected to at least, hoiling temperature before being eaten to destroy th e parasite and disease germ s u which lurk in the tiss es . For this reason I regard “ a favorite food known as scr aped heef (frequently fo r prescribed invalids) as dangerous . The great variety Of cer ea ls should be used with r im mode ation and discr ination , as they contain starch

’ i ex c ess w hich m n n m s n a , in so e i sta ces , pro ote dys e ia n m s . p p The entici g hot roll , or s oking corn cake m u flin w a e and , the irresistible fl coated with butter , ' garnished with sugar o r floating in syrup are best r taken at long intervals . The staple article of b ead m w holew he t I a . is , think , best prepared fro the flour

In my Opinion the very best. articles of food are the ’ r uits nuts r eaa ser ved sweet f and y by nature . The ’ idea that these tw o classes constitute m ans na tur a l ’ ooa f is ra pidly growing . These articles are rich in

- n n m tw o the carbo aceous and nitroge ous ele ents , the m m n ur f ost i portant ingredie ts in o food . O these foods the ﬁnest and freshest alone should com e to t m ut E i w al our ables . A ong n s I prefer the ngl sh e ut . n and pecan , esp cially the latter I have found h m i f t e very digest ble , strengthening and satis ying, and patients for whom I have prescribed them have ad S m o f n h i ilar experiences . The nut is fond prio ity ; if invited in at the end of the feast after a great m h n m a asse bly Of foods ave been entertai ed , it y d prove rebellious , but when accorded a fair egree of mi m i pro nence it behaves decorously . A ong fru ts the appleheads the list and m ay be eaten with every m a m m v e e e l . Che ically , the apple is co posed of g m um m table ﬁbre , albu en , sugar , g , chlorophyl , alic “ THE E E R 1 V G TA IAN .

ﬁ ; l ic , . ac id m mu F urth er a l . acid , g , li e and ch water m ore , the apple contains a larger percentage of phos r o u s i a ph o than any other fru t or veget ble . The

‘ phosph orous is admirably adapted for renevVing the se i m lec ithin ” a es nt al nervous atter , , Of the br in and spinal cord . The acids of the apple are of signal m en use for of sedentary habits , whose livers are m t sluggish in action , as they serve to eli ina e noxious m m i atters fro the body , which , if reta ned , would make the brain heavy and dull or bring about jaun r u s dice o skin er ption and other allied troubles . Sweet or a nges are appetizing and healthy when prop Ba na nas am a bl erly eaten . , I aware , are debat e ; my own experie nce with this fruit has been m ost w o n m a favorable and they are al ays y t ble . The ( la teis full Of nutriment and fo rm s a desirable break rec 1 e r a is in o f fast dish ( p ) . The is a storehouse w i l d energy a a ting release , the delicious pu p shoul alone be eaten . I believe that ripe , fresh fruit of all “ “ kinds m ay b e eaten with beneﬁt if taken at proper m m - I m t ti es and in a suitable anner , but us warn you against mixing them with the miscellaneou s food m of an ordinary. enu . w a ter a For beverages , stands ﬁrst . It is the gre t natural solvent of nearly all the substances which r e m s t led no t nter the ani al body . It has been y ,

' “ ’ ina rO riatel A m - A e pp p y, da s le , as it is the gr at beverage which nature gave to the entire anim al i m m un k ngdo . It was ﬂowing fro countless fo tains m an m h is e when ade appearance on this plan t . As the O r Of th e it a solvent for food , a quencher thirst m m i m is never i proved by any ad xture . It ay be taken freely at nor ma l tenzper a t i/ r e whenever desired 1 2 THE E I 7 VEG TAR AN .

A glass o f cold o r hot water drank in the morning o ut m washes the sto ach , refreshes the intestinal tract and alleviates that unpleasant condition which m u m il Milh is the pri e ca se of so any ls . is the sec ond perfect food in nature and contains everything m u required by the ani al body , but only an infant p to tw o years o f age can take enough to meet its ph y m i sic al i . A t requ re ents s before stated , is a jealous i e e fi e food , . , it s rves best when taken alone . It quently rebels against mixed society (sterilization) . n Tea , the cup which cheers but not i ebriates , is to be regarded so mewhat as a luxury and used accord in l W m a m c g y. hile it y at ti es be benefi ial , the fact that it promotes indigestion must not be dis regai ded — — It contai ns ta nnin an active astringent and is apt to make young persons appear prem at urely old co ee i dif In regard to fi , I recognize the ex stence of ferent opinions concerni ng its value as a beverage . P r ersonally I have not found it delete ious , though I Of do not now use it . The best preparations choco m distilled s ir its . A late and cocoa are har less ll the p , m m u m a fer ented and alt liq ors y be put aside . Man —in m — m m y opinion needs the no ore , for bever d m m o . . A ages , than the lower ani als lcohol i pairs the membranous lining of the stom ach and thus interferes with digestion . Chronic gastritis of an aggravated type afflicts persons addicted to ' an im l low ers moderate use Of a coholic drinks . Alcohol m m the te perature of the ani al body , contracts the

m v . capillaries , i pairs itality and clouds the intellect There are certain pathological conditions best known m " to the physician , which invite and justify its ad in stratio ns i , and where it partially atones for its

1 7 4 THE V EG ETA RIA N : die th m b ut a v t i n with evicti , renew their cti i y the m m d t e s o hu an o rganis . This is prove by h hi t ry of “ ” “ t e ' m and s h trichina and the tape wor , tho e formidablediseases which have been traced to th e m m o f tuber ani al tissues . The fact that a ultitude c ulons beeves are annua lly c ondemned and destroyed

b i rd - on suggests a disagreea le poss bility . 3 . Meat c tains much scr ap which is not assimilated and de mands a bnormal activity in the human laboratory to m O h i m e . li inate rgans w ch are ov—ertaxed , in ti e , th lose their executive ability . 4 The continuous, “ and especially the excessive use of ani mal ﬂesh as m ’ “ food , retards the growth of an s higher or 1r al m in S 1tu . p nature Man , having attained, a hu an m nm carnation , is gradually eli inating the purely a i al to c fﬂoresc enc e elements , preparatory the and fruit h m a S . age Of his piritual nature This , it is t ought , y ' be hastened by excluding from the system th o se c ells which m ade up the animal body and from which it h e is derived its vitality and nature . T hypothesis

‘ th —I t s as worthy our attention . s is not neces ary a food ; the important elements which it is suppo sed

‘ m a in e contain y be found elsewhere , especially ggs, m L ~ - ilk , fruit and nuts , astly , and principally , The killing of animals for food is a cruel and wanton sac rific e Of and sacred that high , sensitive f life which m m Go d m Of w i t co es fro , the p urpose and li it h ch i is fo r m l to not us puny orta s define . Creatures whose m m ou r flesh is ost estee ed as food , are , physically , t m i coun erparts ; the sa e high nervous organ zation , h e i f r t sensit veness to physical su fering , te ror , and f u O . dread , with a still ac ter sense approaching death

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w m thy and thick veiling the divinity ithin the . m m They beco e unfit for social and do estic duty , and , u above all , disqualified for perpet ating a healthy m n race . Blood and brutality , i gled with profanity , m m ust influence the forthco ing personality . These are serious thoughts which cannot be ignored by any o ne in m i m who exists a des re , however s all , for the elevation of the race . To return to our food table I am S m s aware that a very i ple diet of vegetable , r uits nuts and preferably , f and would not be adapted t o one who has just abandoned the ordinary animal m m foo d diet . The change fro one syste to the other m b e m ust by gradations , gradually any articles will be eliminated until finally a few well selected foods di will su ce . Before one can make any progress in this dietary path a lesson must be learned and a dominant desire m ea t be “conquered . The lesson is that ore should live to to live and not to eat . The desire be subjugated is that insatiable appetite for endless o a r iet n ood ar e y i f . These the initial steps for one who would be emancipated from the Slavery O f palatal

appetite . I can almost hear a chorus O f voices exclai mi ng the simple diet which y o u advocate may be very good but we would tire of th ose same things every ‘ N d c m day “ow the i ea whi h is e bodied in those words ( tired of those same things every day ) is he m the y which explains why ther—e are great arkets , crowded with varieties of food w h y persons who m can prepare this food in countless w—ays receive fro $ 1 6 per month to a year why the le ading attraction at a hotel is its table—why skilled cater R N 1 THE VEGETA IA . 7 9 — ers am ass fortunes w hy a merciless warfare is waged o n every living creature which is deemed ﬁt ’ — to en ter man s s tomach why it is that ten thousand i intell gent women in this City alone have said to - day ’ I ndec lare I don t know what to get for the family ” “ to eat —Wh , what a trouble it is , y appeals for charity are SO often m et by the expression I w ould m i be glad to do so eth ng , but it takes every cent I — it in m can get to live , why is that the eat shops , S ﬁsh mo n ers m a the bake hops , and at the g y daily be met well dressed and intelligent appearing women no t m with anxious , careworn faces , the outco e Of profo u nd and prolonged tho ught upon the great m m an i proble of , his orig n , and his destiny but , h m an a etite h o w to rat er , his pp , and satisfy it . It is this insatiable greed in m an for variety in food which has reduced to a ga lling serf dorn three u r th e o f to - fo ths of housekeepers day . The sla very v m s to which our wi es , others and isters are subjected

m l ? T . by this a ny appetite is appalling . he grand po s ’ sib ility of woman s mind for culture and reﬁnement , and its power to set in action forces which must m m or bid a eliorate , refor and elevate the race , f that its capabilities should be paralyzed by the constant do mes tic tr ivialities burden of . Is it right that the individualized ray Of the universal mind so beauti fully mirrored in woman should be exclusively ab

sorbed with thoughts pertaining to food , personal adornment ‘ and house decoration ? In this wide do main are there not many ﬁelds O f labor wherein with , m strong entality , loving hope , true charity and deep sympathy s he m ay work for th e betterment of the Of present race , and the uplifting those yet to come ? 0 T VE R A 1 8 HE GETA I N S

f “ Th e w . reason for this is t o old . I st The desire for pa la ta l indulgence which m ay become a sensuo us gratiﬁcation as baneful in its effec ts as ot hers which m m d { z ud ? are ore e phatically criticise , and the in ability to realize that the costly Delmonico dainty m will nourish the physical body no ore , if as well , as h e m O f i O t easure nuts cost ng but a few cents . nce

the interior wall of the pharynx is passed , the princely entree and the plebian nut drop into a c o m mo n receptacle where their true worth is recognized . m m nota bl Many of our do estic ani als , y the workers , o n m Wh thrive the sa e food day by day . y should m an i m m , w th the sa e organs , require such a co plex ? diet “ Let m l us next consider , sy bolical y , the good m m draft , which e—ans , as applied to the ani al body , plenty of oxygen upon th e supply of this gas all the

physiological processes depend . Close the draft in m S Off the furnace and the ﬁre beco es extinct . hut m i ox en . W the supply of yg and the ani al d es . ith a

‘ poor draft the ﬁre burns but feebly ; with a reduced supply Of oxygen the great physical processes of th e m o r Sub - m body are i peded , suspended . nor al func tio nal activity in an organ results in atrophy and ul m m ti ate diseases , which , if not arrested , ter inate in H m u l s u l o death . ence the i portance of a f l ppy f ox en w e i i yg . have seen that the var ous t ssues

receive their supply o f this gas through the lungs . N O m u encoura in argu ent sho ld be needed for g g, and im edi f O ur n O . not p g, the supply the vital air lungs should have full play; every restriction on their free m m P a k ove ent avoided . ersons who sit or w l erect

' breathe easier and deeper than those _who stoop

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v st a tio n r e ig . Corset pressure exerts othe baneful m t inﬂuences . Charts igh be exhibited illustrating th edispl ac ement of vital organs resulting i na change o f fo1 m i S m m 18 and funct ons . o eti es the liver forced i m nto the thoracic cavity , causing co pression of the — l ungs a condition which I have witnessed at an au —o r S m in topsy , the pleen and pancreas are ade to vadethe domain of the stomach ; or the delicate and reproductive organs are crowded into the pelvi c a m b sin , causing loss of function and , great disco fort by their pressure o nthe (sacral) plexus of nerves A ll such abnormities are attended by a train o f evils which it would require m ore than one evening to re h hearse . Actuated by the false idea that t eir per m sonal attractiveness is enhanced , wo en too often attire them selves in a m anner which disqu aliﬁes them for those duties which are dependant upon good m m health , and are inseparable fro the true wo an , m m to wife and other , and causes the degenerate - from the l ugnes t and nobles t in the evolutionary era znoa la tin ner z 'ons w r eck series into a p g , constantly ’ and mercilessly scourged either by a car onic li ea aaene oat / mono or . I would plead with my fair sisters to be em anei pated from the tyranny of fashions conceived in the P m brains of inconsiderate arisian odistes , to raise m superior to the any false conventionalities in dress , — to clothe themselves as nature w hich m akes no m — to istakes dictates , recognize the Divinity within m Him the , and provide for a healthier , and hence

m . nobler , and ore beautiful dwelling

The corset is frequently worn to reduce , or dis

m - guise corpulency . This is a istake . The steady TH N 1 8 E . VEGETARIA . 3

pressure on o nezone o f the abdomeninduces 1nc rease d v w i ih of a ipose tissue abo e and belo that l ne , this m th e P m m creases rather than di inishes evil . er it e to l t r v say incidental y , tha the wea ing of hea y apparel

supported by the hips is s ca rcely less, i njuri ous than

a— the corset Every means should be employed b y s — c h eSt both sex e to increase the capacity of the . This m ay be accomplished by dee p inhalation and S m i i t low respiration , by the syste at c use of l gh ” m b - du bells , and well balanced indian clubs , by m “ im calisthenics , and judicious gy nastics . Did t e “ m I mi m b S c i ence per it , ght tell you so ething a out the ” o Br ea t/i h o w nc d f on the physical plane , i rease i m m a respiration raises the bod ly te perature , and y “ ” m u be e ployed to prevent a cold d ring exposure , how it i s a potent inﬂuence 1ndis persing an ab norm al m h o w m a l a pul onary condition , it y be used to a l y

‘ n m v m t and m v insoznnza pai , cal ner ous excite en , re o e “ , etc m u a the m o s znolee . , but we st p ss to sy b lical ae i m the m n n ﬂ wh ch eans physiologically , eli i atio of the w as te pr oduc ts fro m the bo dy thr ough the m c re agencies already na ed . These substan es , if

‘ tained deco n o sitio n W a e , undergo p , ith the rele s of s m w i i n m m a n poi onous atter , h ch , ti e , y i fect the

’ s th d a d sy tem through e b loo n produce septic mmia , nin ee all es o f or blood poiso g . S to it that the avenu r Ev n n o exit are f ee . eryo e recog izes that a cl gged w aste pipe in a house is dangero us and demands m n i L et me sur h e pro pt atte t on . as e you t at a lik conditio n in the animal body S hould arouse mo re ap o L et t us a prehensi n . the intestinal trac be fl hed d ily “ n m rit of by drinki g plenty of water . The ajo y the ' human fam-ily do not consume eno ugh o f t his p re 8 4 THE VEGETARIAN . c io u s flui d and in consequence suffer f rom a long d train of ills . Free use of water with aily exercise i n m i will , ordinarily , keep the k dneys in or al cond m m d m tion, but at the first sy pto of i inished energy m fo r — i m seek edical advice , speak ng etaphorically these are the gates thro ugh which trains of ash carts m d m are hourly passing out . As uch rejecte aterial passes o ff through the skin in the form of insensible m “ perspiration , it is i portant that this sheath of the m m ' i r n delicate echanis be kept n p e fect conditio . This m ay be done b y means of the s imple mor ning ba tli I h artic u . would be glad to enlarge upon t is p m m lar subject did ti e per it . It is astonishing that so many persons have a catlike aversion to water I have had patients among the middle and upper e classes who positively d clined to bathe daily . The flim sies One t excuses would be urged in Opposition . o m m h er w an actually asserted that it ade sick . This m kind of opposition to a sanitary easure is , ordinar o ily , the offspring of indolence and inc rrect parental m education . The daily orning bath with cool water m is sti ulating , and is one of the surest prophylactics cold in Me nead n against s , lary x and lungs , sore throat , etc . , and generally prevents those disagree f m Gar able chilly sensations which a flict so any . ments worn next the body during the day should be m re oved and well aired at night . The bad habit of sleeping in the underclothing has a nc ied m o r its origin in a f increased co fort , in that indifference which seeks to abbreviate every duty . m The clothing , especially during sleep , beco es ff m in saturated w ith cast o aterial . To keep this contact with the body during the period of activity

1 8 6 THE ET I A VEG AR N . “ S r so ul re u ir restorer . u ely if the q es rest in t h e and u i land of the hereafter , the worn ill sed phys cal b c re ody needs periodi al ref shing repose on earth . It m s ‘ is the period of relaxation fro over train , during which the muscle and the nerve cell recruit their ex ed h aust energy . The minimum amount of sleep required by h u manity is eight hours ; the young and the aged re m i Th e quire ore . practice of extending literary omm m m work , c ercial activity , a use ent and feverish excitement fa r into tne nigb t is abnormal and will d m abbreviate life . Far better woul it be , i itating the m m - o ur m exa ple of our ani al friends an“d pri itive k the s brothers , to see repose when sun god sink r d to m to est , and be rea y eet and greet his advent on m t h e ensu ing orning . After all I have treated this great sub ject of phy

in o m . w s ic al health a very curs ry anner. It ould require mo re than one evening to take up the collat fo r t eral branches exhaustively , it is a subjec with m V m which ab le writers have ﬁlled any olu es . In considering the subject of menta l b ea lt/z we re cognize a striking analogy bet w een the law s which min govern the body and those which apply to the d. A s physical health depends upon a normal body in m which all the organs function har oniously , and '

' v m m a c o nditio n- of correlati ely , so ental health i plies w ell bal anced intellectual faculties ; a state in w hich all impressions received through the sense organs

n r t . are properly tra slated , and neve distor ed Dis tortio nof sense perceptions constitutes hallucinations — P in m the m en o ne form of insanity . ersons who tal faculties are not well equilibra ted are usually rec ~ A THE VEGET RIAN . “ o niz ed g as cranks , or , if this opprobrious title is no t m m o quite erited , the ilder appellations of pe u l “ m iar or strange see to be fairly earned . This condition m ay result from an impoveris hed supply o f to m th e blood food that co plex network of nerves , bra in th em d . As it is through this organ that in m ust function on the physical plane , the clearness of

' m m ro o rtio ned to the ental anifestations, will be p p m 1 the nor al condition of this great ne ve center . As the body requires the ingestion of suitable food , m m i t i co plete assi ilation of its nutr ive ingred ents , and m m through eli ination of its unappropriated aterials , mind m so the de ands a nourishing , and developing m m ental pabulu , the appropriation of all which pro m otes growth , purifies and energizes , with the erad ic atio n o f that which retards development and con . tam inates S m m . election of ental ali ent requires even more discrimination than in the choice of our f physical diet . Carelessness and indi ference in either case will be succeeded by undesirable consequ“ences . do m ain o f In the literature , including the daily press which not infrequently publishes—as news m m h highly sensational and unwholeso e aterial , t ere m is ore to reject than to accept . There , as in the m m w h ol u great fa ily arkets , we find articles y nfit i m for food , and which if ngested , ust awaken forces o f m w a very deleterious character . I pure ritings breed corruption in the mind like tainted flesh within H the body . ighly sensational literature , like the a m m fo l lcoholics , produces undue ental sti ulation m lowed by i paired functional activity , and develops an abnormal appe tite for m ore of the fascinating “ ” m w aterial . The goody goody eak literature , full 1 88 E R THE V GETA IAN .

of platitudes and abounding in thoughts and advice drawn from a very narrow Theology is equally o h ec tio nab le 1t m n i m j , as lacks ental utr ent and contri “ butes to the mind about what the tea and toast

diet would supply to the body . u W S 1 The q estion , hat hall we read ? ar se s natur v m m ally . I belie e that our ental regi en should comprise those articles which contain th e m aximum amount of fr a t/i within the minimum amount of er ror m m m a m , fro which the ind y receive nourish ent m su b se without exhaustion and sti ulation , without Let quent depression . us seek it in the pages of i a fic well authenticated history , judic ously rranged o m a h and ti n , de onstrated science , synthetic l t eology A S m . logical etaphysics in current books , so in the f R m dram a o the day . esearch will reveal ore that is unwholesome than nutritious ; more that produces feverish fermentation than ennobling peace ; more that debases than exalts ; more that poisons than r m o f find m t heals . In the eal art we ore hat is sensuous than Spiritual ; more that excites the emo tions than expands the heart ; more that appeals to soul the intellect than awakens response in the . Even in the popular music of the day there is more lo rifies W that fascinates than g . here shall we seek an explanation ? It is not to be found in the insati o f the m and able appetite _ hu an being for variety change ; t h e restless discontent with what might i prove a merciful monotony : the inability . to real ze that in the natural and the simple m ay be found that m which is eagerly sought in the abnor al , and the m c o plex . Tb ong/i t has a wondrous po w er to foster mental

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from nature her Secre ts and make them his th u nderb o lit to will , clutch the and v m m ser itude , fro crude aterials bring h th e o m n 1 fort l o and cotton gin , the printi g p ess , m m t a h s u er stea engine , chrono eter and elegr p , the p b urna n intelligence which defines the orbits and er iods p of the planets . calculates the parallax of stars ” th e w trillions of leagues away , charts path ay of those th e co nzets and u nerr weird wonders through space , , in l tell g y designate their periodical visitations , the r i m c o m sto y of the equ noxes , analyze the sunbea , h pose harmonies worthy of seraph c oirs . The mysteri ous something which impels m an to o n n th e r a di a nce speculate his origin , and desti y , which illuminates the names of the great sci e ntist s l divine a ttr action and spiritua teachers , the which draw s m an away from the c o m o sine cares o f earth m w n m h h life , fro the sorro and disappoi t ent w ic m sadden , fro the ceaseless struggle with the varied m m i proble s of life , fro the delus ve pleasures and ex ’ ” citement m a m which beset the pilgri s pathw y, fro e m f u s l k the unh althy a bitions which , ignis at u i e , l m ett env ea lous a lure but to deceive , fro all the p y y , j y , b d him r es t s tr i e i . and f , which corrupt the heart , and Unless t h e mind is bathed in the divine radiance of the spirit it can never manifes t its glorious possi b ilities m t n , but ust ravel the arrow circle within which the beast is c1rc um scrib ed with those occas ional flashes o f Spiritual life upon it which now and then appear as remarkable intellectuality associated m m with pronounced ani alis , or , with a deeper glow no t m of the divine light resting upon , yet per eating fl i ts e m i i t , ash through earth lif with eteor c bril ' l’ HE 1 1 VEGETARIAN . 9

lianc b ut o f no m n y, leaving no trace its course , o u m r m em 01 m a ent sac ed to its y, or , it y wander in darkness amidst the rocks and pitfalls of m aterialism vainly striving to ascribe the manifestations of the no mina l 111 th e phenomenal to the fortuitous group i er the m m ing of bl nd forces , rath than to i utable t s o f i n la w r m s i r it d Opera ion D vi e . F o p all procee s , nt r t and i o s pi i all eventually returns . In the long a scending path thro ugh the kingdom of nature e very i thing was born of spirit . In endless cycles spir t s m de cends with atter and reascends to the Divine , ’ m b d1eam as beautifully sy olized in jacob s . In the s pirit is the ini t i a l point where true and perfect h as O 1 i in b health its g . Bestow upon the ody all m m fo r possible care , e ploy every eans physical de veI O I nent m S p , disregarding the ind and the pirit , and i perfect health w ll not be secured . To the carefully n d urtured bo y add high intellectual culture , still , ignoring the inﬂuence of the Spirit and yet true d O h health will not be attaine . nly when we ave risen to and become suffused with the spiritual light “ — of o ur Higher Selves the Divine ray from the — know led e Father will we possess the requisite g , des i r e and w ill pow er to put in action those control m ling , and deter ining forces which create and regu P m m e late perfect health . ro inent a ong th se is the mmd o n ability to concentrate the up a single point , m to exclude all sense perceptions , to editate so deeply that a realization of the oneness of the indi vidual with the Divine is established , and then by forming strong and vivid pictures of a perfect m an a w h 1c h o hood , release gencies will pr duce conditions wherein essays on physical health will not be re 1 2 THE 9 VEGETARIAN .

quired . Then and not until then will cease that restless detrimental desi re for variety and change ; then w 1ll fade that insatiable yearning for the pleas “

ures of the senses ; then will the discord , born of m unattained a bitions , be succeeded by the holy har mony o f contentment ; then will our strong grasp m C upon the things of ti e , and sense relax as we lasp th e things which are eternal ; then will we see with

S i - unsa tis actor pir tual vision the f y lives we have led , and realize the darkness from which we have m e erged . Then “will the restless discontent of our personality be transformed into an endur ing peacef

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