As to the testimony of individuals it is interesting to note that some
of the greatest philosophers, scientists, poets, moralists, and many men
of note, in different walks of life, in past and modern times, have, for
various reasons, been vegetarians, among whom have been named the
following:--

Manu
Zoroaster
Pythagoras
Zeno
Buddha
Isaiah
Daniel
Empedocles
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Porphyry
John Wesley
Franklin
Goldsmith
Ray
Paley
Isaac Newton
Jean Paul Richter
Schopenhauer
Byron
Gleizes
Hartley
Rousseau
Iamblichus
Hypatia
Diogenes
Quintus Sextus
Ovid
Plutarch
Seneca
Apollonius
The Apostles
Matthew
James
James the Less
Peter
The Christian Fathers
Clement
Tertullian
Origen
Chrysostom
St. Francis d'Assisi
Cornaro
Leonardo da Vinci
Milton
Locke
Spinoza
Voltaire
Pope
Gassendi
Swedenborg
Thackeray
Linnaeus
Shelley
Lamartine
Michelet
William Lambe
Sir Isaac Pitman
Thoreau
Fitzgerald
Herbert Burrows
Garibaldi
Wagner
Edison
Tesla
Marconi
Tolstoy
George Frederick Watts
Maeterlinck
Vivekananda
General Booth
Mrs. Besant
Bernard Shaw
Rev. Prof. John E. B. Mayor
Hon. E. Lyttelton
Rev. R. J. Campbell
Lord Charles Beresford
Gen. Sir Ed. Bulwer
etc., etc., etc.

The following is a list of the medical and scientific authorities who
have expressed opinions favouring vegetarianism:--

M. Pouchet
Baron Cuvier
Linnaeus
Professor Laurence, F.R.S.
Sir Charles Bell, F.R.S.
Gassendi
Flourens
Sir John Owen
Professor Howard Moore
Sylvester Graham, M.D.
John Ray, F.R.S.
Professor H. Schaafhausen
Sir Richard Owen, F.R.S.
Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S.
Dr. John Wood, M.D.
Professor Irving Fisher
Professor A. Wynter Blyth, F.R.C.S.
Edward Smith, M.B., F.R.S., LL.B.
Adam Smith, F.R.S.
Lord Playfair, M.D., C.B.
Sir Henry Thompson, M.B., F.R.C.S.
Dr. F. J. Sykes, B. Sc.
Dr. Anna Kingsford
Professor G. Sims Woodhead, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.
Alexander Haig, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P.
Dr. W. B. Carpenter, C.B., F.R.S.
Dr. Josiah Oldfield, D.C.L., M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
Virchow
Sir Benjamin W. Richardson, M.P., F.R.C.S.
Dr. Robert Perks, M.D., F.R.C.S.
Dr. Kellogg, M.D.
Harry Campbell, M.D.
Dr. Olsen
etc., etc.

Before concluding thi