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that if, as he once expressed it, he did not "feed 

 upon grass, like the Babylonian monarch of old, 

 he at best varied his diet with cabbage and other 

 such green food." It appeared to him that as a 

 fruiterer's was a pleasanter place to visit than a 

 butcher's shop, so the vegetarian's repertoire was a 

 more inviting one than the meat-eater's. 



Being once asked by the editor of a vegetarian 

 newspaper to give a list of viands suitable for his 

 readers from which to make a choice, he willingly 

 did so, prefacing the catalogue of dainties by some 

 remarks of his own which were not a little to the 

 point. He observed : " Just in the same way that 

 the Almighty, our Heavenly Father, ordained that 

 men should live out their allotted time, and not 

 throw their lives away, by implanting within them 

 a due fear of death, so has He made the food 

 which He has given for their sustenance 'pleasant 

 to the eyes/ and 'all things richly to enjoy,' that 

 they might be inclined to eat it, and sustain and 

 prolong their existence. Here it is that the vege- 

 tarian has the advantage over every one that is of 

 the contrary part." 



After describing the way the ordinary English- 

 man gorged himself with beef or mutton, which he 

 washed down with strong ale or stronger stout a 

 strange contrast to the way the Frenchman dines 

 he adds : " A fearful amount of cruelty would be 

 avoided by a vegetarian diet, and the demoralisation 

 of a whole class of the community employed in the 

 killing of animals for food ; there would be a vast 



