hough a library was formed and
meetings held, nobody, hardly, would read, and the meetings grew thin.
They had no Joe Smith or Gen. Taylor to lead them--and mankind without
leaders and without deep-toned principle, soon grow tired of war. Few
will fight in such circumstances.

CHAPTER VIII.

VEGETABLE DIET DEFENDED.

General Remarks on the Nature of the Argument--1. The
Anatomical Argument.--2. The Physiological Argument.--3. The
Medical Argument.--4. The Political Argument.--5. The
Economical Argument.--6. The Argument from Experience.--7. The
Moral Argument.--Conclusion.

In the progress of a work like this, it may not be amiss to present, in
a very brief manner, the general arguments in defence of a diet
exclusively vegetable. Some of them have, indeed, already been adverted
to in the testimony of the preceding chapters; but not all. Besides, it
seemed to me desirable to collect the whole in a general view.

There are various ways of doing this, according to the different aspects
in which the subject is viewed. Every one has his own point of
observation. I have mine. Conformably to the view I have taken,
therefore, I shall endeavor to arrange my remarks under the nine
following heads, viz., the ANATOMICAL, the PHYSIOLOGICAL, the MEDICAL,
the POLITICAL, the ECONOMICAL, the EXPERIMENTAL, the MORAL, the
MILLENNIAL, and the BIBLE ARGUMENTS.

Dr. Cheyne relied principally on what I have called the medical
argument--though what I mean by this may not be quite obvious, till I
shall have presented it in its proper place. Not that he wholly
overlooked any thing else; but this, as it seems to me, was with him the
grand point. Nearly the same might be said of Dr. Lambe, and of several
others.

Dr. Mussey seems to place the anatomical and physiological arguments in
the foreground. It is true he makes much use of the medical and the
moral arguments; but the former appear to be his favorites. Dr. Whitlaw,
and some others, incline to make the moral and political arguments more
prominent. Mr. Graham, who has probably done more to reduce the subject
of vegetable dietetics to a _system_ than any other individual,--though
he makes much use of _all_ the rest, especially the moral and
medical,--appears to dwell with most interest on the physiological
argument. This seems to be, with him, the strong-hold--the grand
citadel. And it must be confessed that the point of defence is very
strong indeed,