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10. INTUITIONAL.
It is in accordance with the universal, instinctive demand and perception of the unperverted, natural appetite of childhood, to call for "fruit, fruit, fruit!" This is the "voice of God," crying aloud in the wilderness of human depravity ignorance and animality, for that which shall yet constitute the actual form of sustenance for the human race, as it already constitutes the really true and legitimate form—using the word fruit in its broad sense, to include nuts and grains.
Those who from moral conviction reject the usual mixed diet, and return toward the natural or fruit diet, enjoy presently a certain intuitive consciousness of the rightness of the principle, which becomes more and more clear and powerful, in proportion to the thoroughness with which the principle is adhered to; until at length nothing can be more certain and real than this same instinctive, indescribable, self-demonstrating consciousness—which is above and beyond, and yet fully in harmony with Reason.
All who, from principle, have gone far in the diet reform, have enjoyed this blissful realization of being in accord with the voice of God in the soul—than which there can be nothing more delightful or more needful to the human race in every department of life.
To quote again from Shelley: "It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparations, that it is rendered susceptible of easy mastication and digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices does not excite intolerable loathing, horror and disgust. Let the the advocate of animal food force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and, as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and, plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood. When fresh from the deed of horror, let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature, that would rise in judgment against it, and say, 'Nature formed me for such work as this.' Then, and then only, would he be consistent."
