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universal, especially when nourishment is insufficient. 

 This proves, I think, that what is most wished for is not 

 always best for us. 



The law, and generally our own inclination, oblige us to 

 leave the treatment of disease, once acquired, in the hands 

 of doctors and surgeons, and this in spite of the many 

 mistakes they make often grievous mistakes, such as 

 cutting people open and then merely sewing them up 

 again because nothing is wrong, or leaving pieces of lint 

 or even forceps inside after operations. Both these cases 

 have come under my knowledge. Knowing of these 

 things only depresses one and does no good. But the 

 maintaining of health from babyhood upwards and the 

 prevention of disease for these, to my mind, all human 

 beings are individually responsible both as regards them- 

 selves and their children. The more the latest and most 

 conflicting scientific theories on the subject are known by 

 everybody the better. 



For all who are interested in the subject of non-meat- 

 eating, much general information (cooking and other) is 

 to be got from ' The Vegetarian,' a weekly penny news- 

 paper. It is, of course, written from the sentimental 

 point of view of the non-killing of animals, the health of 

 man being considered as only secondary. Everyone with 

 any understanding must have his feelings aroused by 

 the sufferings of animals, whether caused by man or 

 by each other. The killing of animals comes under 

 a different category. Anyone who keeps cows knows 

 well the sad order that has to go forth for the slaughter 

 of the beautiful little bull-calf, as even the most fortu- 

 nate farmer cannot expect to breed only cows. Is not 

 all or nearly all our complicated civilised life directly 

 or indirectly mixed up with the killing of animals ? No 

 one can hate cruelty more than I do ; no one can wish 

 more than I do that legislation should be applied to 



