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18 like that of a butcher. Having weighed well these matters I became a fullblown vegetarian."

The useful, docile, gentle, innocent, teachable, beautiful, nimble, long-lived, patient, enduringly strong animals, subsist upon plant food; while the idle and useless, vicious and cruel, unteachable, treacherous, uncomely and repulsive, impatient, excitable and only spasmodically strong, relatively short-lived, predatory creatures, eagerly devour flesh.

The slaughter and consumption of animals for food may be entirely consistent with the present form of "civilization;" may be appropiate to the era of war general violence and confusion, sensualism and corruption; but it is not consistent with a social system which looks to the removal from the earth of these and all other evils, and the establishment of universal purity and spirituality, order, love, harmony and peace.