An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![forg7no] CHAP. Il. ANIMAL FOOD NOT .NECESSARY FOR THE PURPOSE OF STRENGTH OR CORPULENCY. “ Anonc the many pretenceés to which men are driveén to defend or palliate a practice at which human nature, when divefted of the ha- bits and prejudicees of fociety, would not fail to revolt, it is not one of the leat trite and | hackney’d, that, to fuch as are compel’d or ac- custom’d to a laborious or active life, animal food is abfolutely necesfary, without which they would be allmoft, if not alltogether, unable to discharge ‘the dutys require’d in their refpective ftations. This, however, like the reft, is a mere. naked asfertion ; for which, at leaft, the onely argument that can be adduce’d is that men ufe’d to hard labour, or uncommon exertions, require a greater proportion of food, and that, perhap, of a more nutritive or fubftantial nature,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
