Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-08-16
~ no. shaia we Eat General PhysioIoai.
ca, Laws IN Regard to Preparing Food.
From Graham s Lectures on Human ;fa
vol. II, PAGE 400,

1 nose VINO nave accompanied me Tins
Tar along my course, are, BY this time nor
haps, disposed tocry out with the moltitudes
who only know what they have learned from
j rumor concerning my opinions, What will
you leave US to subsist on 2-What shall WE
eat when all our customary food is taken
away f-when flesh and every thing pertain-
ing to the animal kingdom is denied us2
And has it come TO this ?-Is !, in,Ioo5
true that man is under the necessity Of max.
ing his body sepulcre for dead carcasses
IN order 10 keep himself alive, and TO nre.
serve his civilization, and the elegant refine
ments and arts ofeivic life II do confess
ana deeply regret that truth compels ME 10
acknowledge that, in many portions Of The
civilized world, mankind have become so
accustomed to depend on the products of tho
animal kingdom, for their principal articles
OF Diet, that they have greatly neglected to
develop and foster the capabilities of their
more natural and proper source Of aliment
and learned 10 think that starvation would
oe the inevitable consequence of an entire
abandonment of animal food.
1t is true that at the public tables of our
steamboats, and hotels, and in fact, all the
fashionable tables in civic life, which almost
literally groan beneath the multitudinous
dead that lie in state upon them, embalmed
ana decorated like the bodies Of Egyptian
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Potentates prepared for solemn interment.-
emitting their spicy odors to disguise their
natural loa'hsomeness,-it is true, that ar
one OF these tables, loaded apparently with
every luxury and savory dainty that the
market e can supply and culinary skill prepare.
II one sits down, determined to abstain
from animal food, and the still more pernic-
lous preparations of vegetable substances, he
may look In vain throughout the wilderness
OF Vlands before him, for a single dish of
plain and wholesome vegetable food. sueb
as wise man would willingly and freely
Par'ake Of. He might order any form. of al.
lment that the products Of the animal hing
dom can be tortured into, which happens nor
60 be upon the table, and he would probably.
DC promptly and with alacrity supplied but
Il ne calls for simple dish of fruits or veg
eeaotes' his call will either be utterly neo-
iected, or he will be answered in snrlv tone
=" we have not got them sir p,-and he
may therefore either make his meal unon =.
crust OF miserable bread, or conclude 10 fast
entirely, and pay bis dollar or half dollar for
the refined and ennobling pleasure of seeing.
MS more carnlVorous, and literally omniyor-
Gus fellow creatures glut themselves, much.
ai'er the same manner of the giant Polvpbe-
mus when he feasted on the quiverinr bod
les OF the Greeks which he had dashed r..
pieces IN his wrath, excited by the fierce
ness OF his appetite for flesh.
But IS there necessity for such state IF
'nlngs unjust it be so, that we must either
oeny ourselves every enjoyment of the table,
or consent to become associated in our diet
etc habits and character, with the bvena and
the wolf and other beasts Of prey? and with
the Vulture and the owl and bat, and other
harples Of the winged kind Mature shud-
ders and recoils, and answers" No p, in the
deepest tones of loathing and adherence =
-and points US to our beautiful mother
earth, and asks US TO CONTEMPLATE her all.
oountliul eosom;-and the still greater ca
pabllIles OF her soil, which, in the depths
OF our putrescent sensuality, we have loo
long and 100 ungratefully neglected and des-
lPised.-What! talk Of starving, in the fare.
| OF Heaven, when our benevolent Creator
has spread for US SO bountiful table in The.
vegetable kingdom, of fruits aud seeds and
roots and other esculenl substances innnm-
cradle; and which may be cultivated and
multiplied IN quantity and variety without
bounds I? Why did not our first parents
famlsh in Eden, when they kept the gar
den and fed on fruit ?--Why have not The
mYrIads ofthe human race who. from tho
earliest periods of the world even n the
present hour, have subsisted on vegetable
iood, famlshed and left their portions of the
earth depopulaIed? Indeed we do abuse
our own nature and our God, when we sup
pose there is not 10 the products ofthe yeret.
able kingdom in the capabilities of the soil,
full supply of nourishment for man and
such as is best adapted TO sustain tie biub-
est Physiological and sociological Interests
OF as nature; and to afford hin, The purest
and richest and most wholesome enjoy
ments Of sense.
ln regard tothe preparations of vegetable
1000, when considered with reference 10 The
very highest capabilities of human nature.
II IS uDquestionabIy true thai, in the climate
most natural TO man, his physiological in
teTests would be best sustained l.