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 mind you, and you should decide to become a vegetarian, and should begin by recognizing the very important point that you must stop eating meat. Therefore you stop. Now suppose that, in stopping the meat, you entirely lost sight of the fact that a very necessary feature in being a vegetarian, is that one must eat vegetables. You didn't take that into consideration,—you simply stopped eating meat; and as you had been eating nothing else, and now substituted nothing, you ate nothing whatever. You merely kept telling yourself that vegetarians declared that meat wasn't necessary, and that they appeared to be healthy; and you went on, from day to day, growing hungrier and hungrier, and thinner and thinner, and stating to all inquirers that you were testing vegetarianism to see what was in it. It wouldn't take you very long to come to the conclusion that vegetarianism wasn't practicable,—that you, at least, couldn't get along without meat; and you would tell your friends that you had tested the theory to your sorrow, that there was nothing in it; and then you would return to your meat diet, sadder and not much wiser, but perfectly sure that vegetarianism is a mistake,