Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-03
Those who picture poets as long

| Those who picture poets as long
haired fanatics will be very much
| pleased by perusal OF Shelley's Ideas
! on vegetarianism
| What they read there will convince
them more than ever that a poet is
foc!, and not entirely responsible
| Tor his own words or acts.
| The once popular superstition that
@ poet Is little mad will return as
they read what Shelley wrote in his
notes to his Queen Nab"
! Ihls Is one production In which the
cart runs away with the horse. The
notes. containing the young poets
radical ideas, are much more inter
esting than the poem itself.
because the fight between vegetable
| ana meat feeders seems to be an
eternal one. 1t Is interesting to read
Shelley over again upon this subject.
| those who believe in the So-called
vegetable diet will find his words very
! convincing. those who do not believe
viii call them the veriest bunk"
| The diet of man has received in
| tensive study in the United States
| curing the past quarter of a century.
| me necessity for more vegetables III
| The average diet has been pointed out
| time and time again by eminent physi-
clans and institutions.
| Shelley. hundred years ago, made
ferVid appeal for return to vege-
| table diet. Certainly DR.. John Harvey
Kellogg of Battle Creek, Mich, per
| haps the most ardent modern advo-
cate of the meatless diet, could ask
for nothing better.
| Il hold that the depravity OF the
| physical and moral nature Of man
originated in his unnatural habits,
| OF life Shelley wrote. The Ian
guaEe spoken by the mythology OF
| nearly all religions seems to prove
| that at some distant period man for
| sock the path of nature, and sac
riticed the purity and happiness OF
| his being to unnatural appetites
| The date OF this event seems TO
| have also been that OF some great
| change in the climates OF the earth,
with which IT has an obvious cor
| respondence. The allegory of Adam
| and Eve eating of the tree cf evil,
and entailing upon their posterity
| the wrath OF God and the loss of
everlasting life, admits Of no other
| explanation than the disease and
crime that flowed from unnatural
| diet.
| "Prometheus who represents the
human race) effected some great
| change in the condition of his nature.
and applied fire to culinary purposes,
| thus inventing an eXpedtent for
screening from his disgust the hor-
| rorS Of the shambles From this
moment his v!tals We're devoured by
| the Yulture of disease.
Man at his creation was endowed
with the perpetual gift Of youth--that
| is, he was not formed To be sickly.
| suffering creature as We now see
| him, but to enjoy health ana TO sink
| by slow degrees into the bosom OF
| his parent earth without disease or
pain.
| 'Prometheus first laugh. the use
| Of animal food and OF fire with
which to render il more digestible
and pleasing 10 the taste.
Man and the animals whom he
| has infected with his society or de-
| PRAYED by his dominion are alone
/ diseased. The wild hog, the moufion,
| the bison and the wolf are perfectly
| exempt from malady. and invariably
die from external violence or natural
| old age.
But the domestic hog, the sheep,
| the cow and the dog are subject to
an incredible variety Of distempers,
and, like the corruptors Of their ma
| ture. have physicians who thrive upon
their miseries.
The whole of human science In
comprised in one question: How can
the advantages of intellect and civ
| ilization be reconciled with the lib