ualist at a lord mayor's feast, who declaims against the pleasures
of the table."

REV. EZEKIEL RICH.

This gentleman, once a teacher in Troy, N. H., now nearly seventy years
of age, is a giant, both intellectually and physically, like Father
Sewall, of Maine. The following is his testimony--speaking of what he
calls his system:

"Such a system of living was formed by myself, irrespective of Graham or
Alcott, or any other modern dietetic philosophers and reformers,
although I agree with them in many things. It allows but little use of
flesh, condiments, concentrated articles, complex cooking, or hot and
stimulating drinks. On the other hand, it requires great use of milk,
the different bread stuffs, fruits, esculent roots and pulse, all well,
simply, and neatly cooked."

REV. JOHN WESLEY.

The habits of this distinguished individual, though often adverted to,
are yet not sufficiently known. For the last half of his long life
(eighty-eight years) he was a thorough going vegetarian. He also
testifies that for three or four successive years he lived entirely on
potatoes; and during that whole time he never relaxed his arduous
ministerial labors, nor ever enjoyed better health.

LAMARTINE.

Lamartine was educated a vegetarian of the strictest sort--an education
which certainly did not prevent his possessing as fine a physical frame
as can be found in the French republic. Of his mental and moral
characteristics it is needless that I should speak. True it is that
Lamartine ate flesh and fish at one period of his life; but we have the
authority of Douglas Jerrold's London Journal for assuring our readers
that he is again a vegetarian.

FOOTNOTES:

[17] Some, however, represent the great apostle to have been a rigid
vegetable eater. On this point I have no settled opinion.

[18] It may be found at full length at page 233 of the 6th volume of the
Library of Health.

[19] Instances, he says, are not rare (but this I doubt), of two hundred
children born to a man by his different wives, in some parts of the
interior of Africa.

[20] A date but little later than that of the work whence this article
is extracted.

CHAPTER VII.

SOCIETIES AND COMMUNITIES ON THE VEGETABLE SYSTEM.

The Pythagoreans.--The Essenes.--The Bramins.--Society of Bible
Christians.--Orphan Asylum of Albany.--The Mexican
Indians.--School in Germany.--American Physiological Society.

GENERAL REMARKS.

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