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Rh Aguecheek in Twelfth Night—"I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit"—is only one instance of many recognitions of a remarkable psychological fact. Perhaps the most comprehensive reason ever urged against the use of flesh-food is to be found in the saying attributed, I know not on what authority, to Lamartine, that "he had no right to make himself stupider than God made him."

In some cases it would be a difficult task to effect this. But Alas! is it not a task that is daily being attempted, with more or less success, in the houses of many of our fles-eating friends who "keep a good table ?"