A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays/Front matter
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Prefatory Note.
Two of the following Essays, viz., Nos. I. and VI., are reprinted from Time for February, 1883, and January, 1886. The rest have appeared at different times in the pages of the Food Reform Magazine, the Dietetic Reformer, and the Vegetarian Society's Annual.
"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other, when they came in contact with the more civilised."