Nature's own book, or practical results of a vegetable diet, illustrated by facts and experiments of many years' practice / by A. Nicholson.

  • Nicholson, A.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Nature's own book, or practical results of a vegetable diet, illustrated by facts and experiments of many years' practice / by A. Nicholson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    But behind all this specious covering there stands an imperish- able law—a law written by the finger of the Almighty on every fibre of the man, interwoven through bone, marrow, and sinew, saying, “ Hitherto shalt thou go, and no further;” this do and live, transgress and you die. The ox, the horse, and the elephant were originally made to eat grass, and for nearly six thousand years they have fed and fattened on it, and should six thousand years roll on again, grass -would be the natural food of these animals. Sixteen hundred years man lived on a vegetable diet, and what was his age ? Eight and nine hundred years, till his wickedness was so great that God determined to sweep him from the earth, and shorten the days of posterity. “Yet his days shall be an hun- dred and twenty,” and God never said they should be shorter. David says in the ninetieth Psalm, “The days of our years are threescore and ten;” but man had brought them to this by his lusts and excesses, and David was looking about and lamenting it as a calamity; but God had not said it must be so. When Noah came out of the ark, meat was given. “ Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.” But it is impossible to search the Scriptures, and read all that is said on flesh eating, without the inference striking us, that it was allowed as bills of divorcement were, because of the hardness of their hearts, and to shorten man’s days: in plain English, it was given as a curse. Who can read the graphic description of the quails after which the children of Israel lusted, and suppose they were given as a blessing ] And while the flesh was yet in their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague;