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17 shrink with horror at sight of butchery—as do all persons whose native sympathies have not been habitually violated, blunted and crushed.

observes: "I have found repeatedly of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self respect. I have tried it again and again. I have skill at it; but always when I have done, I feel that it would have been better if I had not fished."

"Little Carl, our bright-eyed happy-faced, sunny-tempered boy of 10, had been fishing. He came home jubilant over the fact of having caught five rock bass.

Carl said his prayers as usual that night and went to bed. Pretty soon he called out: "O, mamma, one poor little fish was hurt dreadfully! The hook was fastened in so tight that I couldn't get it out, and another boy had to do it for me. The little fish's body was all torn and bleeding. O mamma, it was just awful! How it must have hurt! I felt so sorry that I put it right back into the water."

O. S. Fowler remarks: "What could the lion, or tiger, or butcher do with active Benevolence, or Conscientiousness (or Spirituality)? . . . No one faculty should ever be so exercised as to clash with the normal function of any other. . . . . Animal food is therefore (unnatural, improper, and injurious,) because it can be procured only by violating man's moral constitution."

"The only reasonable standpoint is to abstain from food which necessitates the infliction of pain and the taking of life. It is about two years ago, when I had occasion to read some papers about slaughter houses and the transport of cattle, that the irresistible conviction came upon me that I must choose between giving up the eating of animal food or my peace of mind, so revolting were the disclosures made. Oh, the poor cattle, knocked about, frightened, starved and left without water while exposed to the burning rays of the sun or huddled together in the transport ships ! Can anything be more cruel? And these were not the only considerations which moved me. I began to feel that I had no right to indulge in food which necessitated any of my fellow creatures following a brutalizing and degrading