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6 diet; especially whenever that diet has been well selected and applied through several successive generations.

"It has not been improperly said of vegetable feeders that with them it is morning all day long. There is no organ of the body which, under the use of vegetable food, does not receive an increase of sensibility, or of that power which is thought to be imparted to it by the nervous system. The senses, the memory, the understanding and the imagination have been observed to be improved by a vegetable diet."

"A vegetable diet enables one to bear hardships and fatigue. This has been demonstrated very forcibly by the recent long-distance walk from Berlin to Vienna, in which vegetarians triumphed so gloriously. Since I have abstained from eating flesh food I can climb hills with great ease and never get out of breath. . . . Vegetarians have invariably bright, clear complexions. How convenient, in traveling, to be able to make a meal ofl" a piece of bread and an apple."

"Those who have throughout life consumed little or no flesh will be found to have preserved the teeth longer than those who have made flesh a prominent part of their daily food."

"A vegetable diet promotes clearness of ideas, quickness of perception, and is much to be preferred by those who labor with the mind." .

"The evidence is overwhelming that it promotes health, strength, vigor and endurance; gives brilliancy and profundity to the intellect, buoyancy to the spirits, exquisiteness to the special senses, tone and depth to the moral faculties, and greater humanity to the man throughout."

"I am now satisfied that man would live longer and enjoy more perfectly the 'sane mind in a sound body' should he never taste flesh."