Race Improvement and Vegetarianism.

White Ribbon, Volume 12, Issue 139, 15 December 1906, Page 6

Race Improvement and Vegetarianism.

I lioreau made the following prediction years ago: “Whatever mv own practice may he, I have no doubt that it is a part of tin* destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave olf eating animals as surely as the savage tribes left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. Hmreau recognizes cannibalism, carnivoraism, and vegetarianism as successive steps associated with the physical, moral and spiritual improvement of man. Dr. Shephard, in an able paper read before the American Medical Association made practically the same statement. lie said :—“ It is evident that as we progress in intelligence and refinement, our food standard changes. As man advances toward a higher plane, lie inevitably tends towards what, for want of a better term, may be called vegetarianism." It is a fact that in the days when the Grecian outlines were the standard of physical beauty both in fact* and figure, the Grecians lived ujjon the simple products of the earth. The Grecian athletes also, who made the glory of the Olympian games, were trained on vegetarian fare. Rollin, tin* historian, informs us that “ they had no other nourishment than dried figs, soft cheese, and coarse heavy bread, and were absolutely forbidden the use of wine.” —Exchange