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longed to a butcher in Jermyn Street. This animal, for some reason, 

 had been spared in its lambhood, and was reared as the butcher's pet. 

 It was well known in St. James's by following the butcher's men 

 through the streets like a dog. I have seen this sheep steal mutton- 

 chops and devour them raw. It preferred beef or mutton to grass. It 

 enjoyed robust health, and was by no means ferocious. 



It was merely a disgusting animal, with excessively perverted appe- 

 tite ; a perversion that supplies very suggestive material for human 

 meditation. 



My own experiments on myself, and the multitude of other experi- 

 ments that I am daily witnessing among men of all occupations who 

 have cast aside flesh-food after many years of mixed diet, prove in- 

 contestably that flesh-food is quite unnecessary ; and also that men 

 and women who emulate the aforesaid sheep to the mild extent of con- 

 suming daily about two ounces of animal tissue combined with six 

 ounces of water, and dilute this with such weak vegetable food as the 

 potato, are not measurably altered thereby so far as physical health is 

 concerned. 



On economical grounds, however, the difference is enormous. If 

 all Englishmen were vegetarians, the whole aspect of the country would 

 be changed. It would be a land of gardens and orchards, instead of 

 gradually reverting to prairie grazing-ground as at present. The un- 

 employed miserables of our great towns, the inhabitants of our union 

 workhouses, and all our rogues and vagabonds, would find ample and 

 suitable employment in agriculture. Every acre of land would require 

 three or four times as much labor as at present, and feed five or six 

 times as many people. 



No sentimental exaggeration is demanded for the recommendation 

 of such a reform as this. 



I must apologize for this digression, as it has prevented me from 

 closing this series with this paper, as I intended. In my next, which 

 really will conclude, I shall describe some experiments I have recently 

 made on the preparation of vegetable food. Knowledge. 



PASTEUK'S KESEAKCHES IN GEKM-LIFE * 



Br Professor JOHN* TYNDALL. 



THE weightiest events of life sometimes turn upon small hinges ; 

 and we now come to the incident which caused M. Pasteur to 

 quit a line of research the abandonment of which he still regrets. A 

 German manufacturer of chemicals had noticed that the impure com- 



* From the Introduction to " Louis Pasteur, his Life and Labors." By his Son-in-Law. 

 New York : D. Applcton & Co , 1885. 



