Fruits and farinacea the proper food of man : being an attempt to prove, from history, anatomy, physiology, and chemistry, that the original, natural, and best diet of man is derived from the vegetable kingdom / by John Smith.

  • Smith, John (Writer on vegetarianism)
Date:
1845
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    INTEODUCTION.- The ultimate object of animal life being pleasm-e, the law of self-preservation, or the love of life, will remain m fiill force so long as enjoyment is not outweighed by painful sensations, or until the organs of sense become mdifferent to their accustomed stimuli. Every creature, therefore, is so wisely consti'ucted, and endowed with such instincts, as induce it to make choice of those means wliich ai-e best calculated to maintain and preserve its existence : were not this the case, animal life would soon terminate. But as individual life has a commencement, so also has it an end; and though the laws of natiu-e should be at aU times imphcitly obeyed, and circumstances should be of the most favourable kind, yet there is a Hmit beyond wliich none can pass,—when vitahty must yield to tlie universal range of chemical influence. Even man, tlie last and most complete result of Divine workmausliip, is no exception to this general rule; nor can all his wisdom and mtelligence reveal to him the means of escaping the sentence passed upon the father of our race:—Dust