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16 not in the company of a Hindoo. Away with this bloodletting.

"It was not from those who lived on vegetables, that robbers or murderers, sycophants or tryants, have proceeded; but fiom flesh-eaters.

Following the disuse of animal food, it will be found that alcoholic drinks, tobacco, morphine and the like (including all drug medicines) will also cease to be used.

"In the same line of argument lies the question of intemperance. Temperance advocates can talk until 'dooms-day,' but the drinking habit will never be obliterated so long as we partake of flesh diet. A heavy drinker is invariably a heavy meat eater. The unfortunate drunkard never dreams that the feverish, poisonous germs gnawing at his vitals, first found their lodgement out of the flesh that had been killed."

"The craving for strong liquors invariably ceases with abstinence from flesh. A vegetarian is never a drunkard. I am not an advocate of medicines of any kind. Plenty of air, cold water and sunshine, combined with a vegetarian diet and a healthy occupation, make the best doctor. . . . There is one great difficulty in this country [England]: you do not get sufficient fruit, ripened in the sun. Look at the Italians in their sunny clime—they almost live upon fruit, and how healthy they are!"

"The use of animal food hurries on life with an unnatural and unhealthy rapidity. We arrive at puberty too soon; the passions are developed too early; in the male they acquire an impetuosity approaching to madness; females become mothers too early and too frequently; and finally, the system becomes prematurely exhausted and destroyed, and we become diseased and old, when we ought to be in middle life."

While the eating of animal food thus stimulates propensity, and unbalances the higher and lower natures, the act of slaughtering animals blunts moral sentiment, and is revolting to the most ennobling instincts and sympathies of human nature. Children invariably