Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-24

gression - making it TO have consisted
merely in single act of an individual, vi.
olaling an arbitrary word Of command
and then fixing all the race in a fatal ne
cessity of SHINING and suffering in conse.
quence of that single act, instead of max
ing the contin1ed suffering to depend on
the continued SHINING, and the continued
SHINING to attach not 10 a depraved mind
alone, but to depravee body also-whie,
| say, look upon all this as irrational, to
say the least of it, if not as impious. [ at
tach very much importance to The eating.
The orthodox view of the individual case
spoken of may have come by tradition in.
to its present shape from correctthought
somewhere far back. While the dogma
is to be rejected, that fatal necessity Of
SHINING, called total depravity, passed up
on all men from a single act oftransgress.
ion in eating. it is not 10 be denied or
doubled that very much deprivation of
blood and vitiat;on of nerves. produced by
bad diet, may be and are transferred from
parents TO children.
Here then is the root of the evil. Men
corrupt and riti0te the fountains of life
and action, By giriag them imprope, all
mentor poison instead Of aliment, or In
connection acith IL. Thus they pervert the
natural tendencies. THey create unnat,
ur0t aOants and desires, and then grasp TO
CRAFTY them. The grasping commences
with marking off, land and fixing bounds.
the land being the source of production,
from which TO CRAFTY their perverted pro-
penslties, and thus to increase the 2erver-
sion and the perverseness. The unnatur.
al selfishness thus created-or to use Ian.
guage with more propriely perhaps, the
natural selishness thus unnaturaIly en-
larged-goeS on from strength to strength,
predominating over the benevolent tenden-
cies and bringing them into subjec,on, IN
Ill the whole man is brought into the most
vile and AFFECT ofall slavery And having
thus ensaved himself. he is prepared to
enslave others. These unnatural demands
know no bounds. Theircry is, give, give.
The more qualification they obtain the
more they call for, until it can be emphat-
ically said Of their victims their "god is
their belly" to which everything mus, be
sacrificed.
The dwellers in cities in this nation ex-
pend at least four or five times as much,
for the qualification of unnatural apretites,
as would be required to feed them on the
best of bread and fruits, mans natural ali
ment. Some of these cities probably pay
as much for the single article of oysters
alone as would furnish natural diet for
their whole population. As much more
is wasted on beef and pork. AS much
more on butter, cheese and seasonings.-
As much more on tobacco, coffee tea and
other drinks. This estimate does not
probably tell more than half Of the truth.
But it is welfto keep within bounds The
half OF the truth will not at present be re.
ceive1 or beaieved-su are the darken-
! ing and besotting effects Of The present so
cia system. Now all this sqnandering
together with the boarding, is at an enor
nous waste Of labor and life, as well as of
Of happiness and usefulness. The ten
dency of it is downward. Il strengthens
the lower and weakens the higher in our
natures. II corrupts the whole man. Ii
cheats TOO, al The same line it depraves.
A greater or more scandaious fraud never
was perpetrated against human nature,
than when human beings were led to look
for an increase of present enjoyment from
unnatural table indulgences. The loss
in present relish is incalculable. 1t is
neither rational, philosophical nor true, to
pretend that the immediate or consequent
pleasure Of swallowing rum or tea is 10 be
compared with that of swallowing water.
| And so of the use OF unnatural food, as
compared with that which is natural =
They who think TO increase the pleasure
of mastication, degIuti,ion and digestion
by displacing grain and fruit with grease,
salt and pepper, are most wofuliy deceiv-
ed and imposed upon. There may be
eradication. But there is at the same
time depraratiOn and peroersioa. Il is a