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 Oliver Goldsmith, the naturalist and poet, who wrote:

Alexander Pope, the poet, who ascribes all the bad passions and diseases of the human race to their subsisting on the flesh, blood and miseries of animals; Emanuel Swedenborg; Sir Isaac Newton; Sir Richard Phillips, the Abbe Gallani; Benjamin Franklin; Horace Greeley, Newton, an English author; Dr. Cheyne, who says, "I have sometimes indulged the conjecture that animal food was not intended for human creatures. They seem to me neither to have those strong and fit organs for digesting them, nor those cruel and hard hearts, or those diabolical passions, which would easily suffer them to tear and destroy their fellow-creatures. To see the convulsions, agonies, and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore or recompense, dying to gratify luxury, must require a rocky heart and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference, on the fact of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on brute animal flesh, except custom and example;" Dr. Jackson, distinguished surgeon in the English army, who said: "My health has been tried in all ways in all climates. I have worn out two armies and can wear out another. I eat no animal food and drink no spirits of any kind, wear no flannel at any season, and regard neither wind, rain, heat or cold;" Thomas Parr, who died at the age of one hundred and fifty two years and some months; Johnson, American missionary to Trebizond; Chandler and Caswell, missionaries to Siam; Magliabechi, an Italian, who abjured cookery, at the age of forty, and confined himself for about fifty years afterwards chiefly to fruits and grains and water; Oberlin and Swartz; Francis Hupazoli,