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2 animals, which in some countries it is not customary for the carnivorous to devour. V. Because Nature appears to have made a superabundant provision for the Nourishment of Animals in the saccharine matter of Roots and Fruits; in the farinaceous matter of Grain, Seed, and Pulse; and in the oleaginous matter of the Stalks, Leaves, and Pericarps, of numerous Vegetables. VI. Because the Destruction of the mechanical organization of Vegetables inflicts no sensitive Suffering, nor violates any moral Feeling; while Vegetables serve to render his own Health, Strength, and Spirits, better than those of most carnivorous men. VII. Because during thirty-four years of rigid Abstinence from the flesh and juices of deceased sensitive Beings, he finds that he has not suffered a week's serious illness; that his animal Strength and Vigour have been equal, or superior to that of other men; and that his Mind has been fully equal to numerous Shocks, which it has had to encounter from acts of turpitude in his fellow-men. VIII. Because, observing that carnivorous propensities among Animals are accompanied by a total want of sympathetic Feelings, and humane Sentiments, as in the hyaena, the tyger, the vulture, the eagle, the crocodile, and the shark; he conceives that the practices of those carnivorous brutes afford no worthy example for the imitation or justification of rational, reflecting, and conscientious, Beings. IX. Because he observes that carnivorous Men, unrestrained by Reflection or Sentiment, even refine