tronger and more healthy who live on that food. I know how
much of the prevailing meat diet is not merely a wasteful extravagance,
but a source of serious evil to the consumer."

The following special cablegram from London to the New York "Sun," July
3d, 1898, contains a practical illustration of the superiority of a
vegetable diet:

"The vegetarians are making a great ado over the triumph of their theory
in the long-distance test of walking endurance, seventy miles, in
Germany, this week. The twenty-two starters included eight vegetarians.
The distance had to be covered within eighteen hours. The first six to
arrive were vegetarians, the first finishing in 14 1/4 hours, the second
in 14 1/2, the third in 15 1/2, the fourth in 16, the fifth in 16 1/2, and the
sixth in 17 1/2. The last two vegetarians missed their way and walked five
miles more. All reached the goal in splendid condition. Not till one
hour after the last vegetarian did the first meat-eater appear,
completely exhausted. He was the only one. Others dropped off after
thirty-five miles."

There is no question of the great economy of vegetarianism. Dr. Alcott,
in "Arguments for Vegetarianism," says:

"Twenty-two acres of land are needed to sustain one man on fresh meat.
Under wheat that land will feed forty-two people; under oats,
eighty-eight; under potatoes, maize, or rice, one hundred and
seventy-six; under the banana, over six thousand. The crowded nations of
the future must abandon flesh-eating for a diet that will feed more than
tenfold people by the same soil, expense and labor. How rich men will be
when they cease to toll for flesh-meat, alcohol, drugs, sickness, and
war!"

"Suffer the ox to plough, and impute his death to age and Nature's
hand.
Let the sheep continue to yield us sheltering wool, and the goats
the produce of their loaded udders.
Banish from among you nets and snares and painful artifices,
Conspire no longer against the birds, nor scare the meek deer, nor
hide with fraud the crooked hook; ....
But let your mouths be empty of blood, and satisfied with pure and
natural repasts."[1]

[1] Imputed to Pythagoras.

COMPARATIVE TABLES
OF
Vegetable and Animal
FOODS.

IN 100 PARTS.

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