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Rh once proved would be a real justification of flesh-eating. It is evident, however, from the May number of Fors Clavigera, that Mr. Ruskin is fully aware of the practicability, if no the desirability, of the reformed diet, for he speaks approvingly of Mrs. Nisbet's "very valuable" letter on Vegetarianism to the Dunfermline Journal. It is therefore incumbent on the members of St. George's Society to obey the rules of their order by ceasing to uphold the needless, and therefore cruel, institution of the slaughter-house, and by adopting that diet which alone is in harmony with the instincts of morality and good taste.