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living things were commanded to help themselves. 

 They were all vegetarians, for they were com- 

 manded by the Creator to live on nothing else. 

 There was no necessity to destroy one life to sup- 

 port another. 



Man and lower animals were commanded to mul- 

 tiply and replenish the earth, and sufficient vege- 

 table food was provided for all. Man had no more 

 right to kill and eat an animal than he had to 

 kill and eat his own offspring. He was created 

 a frugivorous animal ; and his natural food, by his 

 peculiar structure, appears to have consisted of 

 fruits and vegetables. 



Man's short weak jaws, his canine teeth being 

 equal in length to the remaining teeth, and his tuber- 

 cular molars, would allow him neither to feed on 

 grass nor to devour flesh, were these aliments not 

 previously prepared by cooking, which art was not 

 discovered until after the fall of man. But when 

 once possessed of the use of fire, and those arts by 

 which man is aided in seizing 1 animals or killing: 

 them at a distance, every living being was rendered 

 subservient to his use as well as abuse. By this 

 change of food man's health was impaired, and his 

 life has been growing shorter from age to age. 



