sations of feeling; or, if the principles of justice, mercy, and tenderness, be admitted, such principles are merely theoretical, and influence not their conduct. There are persons who abstain from eating the bodies of their fellow animals for a time, but the pow er of habit recurs, meets with a feeble resistance, and becomes inveterate; while perverted understandings readily assist in recalling them to their wonted state. But the truly independent and sympathizing mind 'will ever derive satisfaction from the prospect of well-being, and will not incline to stifle convictions arising from the genuine evidences of truth. With. out fear or hesitation, he will become proof against the sneers of unfeeling men, exhibit an uniform example of humanity, and impress on others additional arguments and motives. He will never hesitate in 66 opening his mouth for the dumb," and, if a Christian in deed and in truth, he will never forget that, not even a sparrow is an inconsiderable object in the sight of God; a reflection, which ought effectually to check, both by example or influence, the shocking barbarities, which unfeeling wantonness or studied cruelty are daily exercising towards many unhappy
In the present diseased state of society, the prospect is far distant when the System of Benevolence is likely to be generally adopted. The hope of reformation then arises from the intelligent, less corrupted, and younger part of mankind.
Absorption, page 154. Age, golden, 9. Agency of foreign substances on the body, 178. Agricultural state, 186. Aleppo, 196.
Aliment, moral effects of, 168. Anatomists, their treatment of animals, 39. Angling, 76.
Animal food, how first intro- duced among the Phoni- cians, 118.
Animal food, effects of, 151, 152.
Animal food unnatural, 147. Animals, beautiful passages in their favour, from an- cient poets, 35.
instanced in dogs, 82; in birds, 88. Animals, on the pleasure of destroying, 238.
Animals respected, 228. Animals, superior to man in several faculties, 81; in- stanced in the carrier-pig- eon, camels, dog, bee, 82. Animals, their fear of man not natural, 90.
Animals, their immortality, 104.
Animals, the names of, ap- plied to drinking vessels,
Animals that weep, 99. Ass, it's treatment, 36. Ass, selected by Christ, 111.
Animals cannot overrun the Bacon, when reared with
country, 227. Animals, eating them not per- mitted, 225.
Animals have no appeal a-
gainst oppression, 125. Animals, of impounding, 33. Animals, of obnoxious, 228. Animals, of reason in, 78. Animals, of their acquired habits, instanced in dogs, crows, eagles, otters, horses,
93. Animals, their docility, in- stanced in a raven, 89; in a magpie and parrot, 90. Animals, of their friendship, 94.
Animals, on their voluntary or accidental improvement,
vegetables, 173. Banana plant, 106. Bees, of destroying them, 43. Bets, extravagant, 65. Birds, of caging, 77. Birds'-nests, of taking, 244. Blood-shedding prohibited, 112.
Bloomfield's Dobbin, the farmer's horse, 33. Bull-baiting, 71, 256. Bullock, first slaughter of, a-
mong the Athenians, 116. Butchery and murder alike,
Butchery, the trade of, 44,
Butchers of Manchester, 255. Butter-tree, 109.
Calves, how tortured, 47, 48. | Distilled water, it's salubri-
Canabalism, 123, 250. Canary Islands, 199. Cancers, 156.
Carters, cruelties of, 19. Cart-horses, treatment of, 20. Children's health, how pre- served, 252.
Children naturally averse to animal food, 153. Children, their sensibility, 143 Chimney-sweeper, anecdote of one, 248. China, produce of, 107. Christians, their oppositions to their own precepts, 109. Civilization, it's effects, 159. Clergy, their duties adverted to, 68. Cock-fighting, 73. Colour of the face, 237. Conduct of man to animals, generally inveighed against, by Oswald, 13, by Dean, 13, by Buffon, by Smellie, 15, by Gay, 16. Consumption, 151. Cooks, a species of butchers,
Corn plant, it's peculiar pro- perty, 108. Corpulency, 237.
Cultivation, it's effects, 189. Diet, of adhering to one kind, 146.
Diet, vegetable, 182. Disease communicated by flesh, 178.
Disease, domesticated ani- mals subject to, 146. Diseases, constitutional, pal- liated, 162.
Disease, the effect of improp- er food, 111.
Dogs, taught to fight, 248. Drink, not necessary to her- bivorous eaters, 179. Eating, of it's pleasure, 231. Education, on the influence of, 243.
Enclosing land, 189. England, it's produce, 188. Entomologist, his conduct, 37. Erskine's bill for preventing cruelty, 257,
European hypocrisy, 240. Evasions of mankind, 231. Evasions of the jews, hindoos, christians, 116.
Fat, of people who dislike .it, 176.
Fawn, the dying, described, 121.
Feebleness produced by diet,
Fermentation, 148. Fever, typhus, to whom most fatal, 162.
Fever yellow, not infectious to negroes, 160. Flesh, an unnatural food, 230. Flesh, raw, it's effect on an- imals, 172, 174.
Food, animal, analyzed, 164. Food, animal and vegetable, effects of, 164. Food, change of, 236. Food, it's agreeable taste no test of wholesomeness, 239. Food of nurses, 149. Food, the consumption of one person, 187.
Friend C-'s wife, 252. Gamester's avoid animal food, 176.
Geese, of stripping them, 36. Golden rule, 225, Gout cured by a vegetable regimen, 162 Grace before meat, of the custom, 243.
Hatred of inferior minds to men of genius, 259. Hedgehog, defended, 247. Herbivorous nations, 192. Hindostan, 223. Holywell water, 179. Horse, Miss Williams's re- flections on their abuse,33. Horse-racing, 63.
Horses fed with fish, 230. Horses flesh, recommended by Dr. Anderson, 240. Horses, of buying those which
are worn out, 31. Horses, of cutting their ears, 28.
Horses, of docking their tails, 23.
Human flesh, a marketable
commodity, 52. Humanity, from whom it may
not be expected, 259. Humanity of Crawford, 105, Hunting, 66; effects of the practice, 69.
Ignorance, it's profound com- placency, 259, Inconsistencies of flesh eat- ers, 239. Indians (East) 200. India, 201.
India, the luxuriant produc- tions of, 106. Indigestion, 147.
Insects, the conduct of those who collect specimens of them, 37. Institutions in favour of ani- mals, 119.
Intellects affected by animal food, 235. Japonese, 199.
Kangaroo, herbivorous, 154. Killing prohibited, 112. Lamb fed on flesh, 231. Life, of it's diseased state, 229.
Longevity hereditary, 223. Luxury, it's effects, 160, 237. Madness charged on those who differ from the world, 258. Malemba, 197.
Malvern water, 156, 179. Mad, who are thus called, 258.
Man compared with other animals, 96.
Man, his frivolous pursuits,
Man, his natural incapacity
for obtaining flesh, 111. Man, his outrageous disposi tions, 103, 250.
Man, his presumption, 101. Man, bis station in the scale of being, 105.
Man, in what respects infe- rior to other animals, 100. Man makes himself king of animals, 99.
Man makes God human, 99, Man's natural destination 223. Man's physical inaptness to rapine, 154.
Man the most diseased of all animals, 159.
Meat, a word made to mean flesh, 242.
Medical arguments in favour of a vegetable diet, 144. Medical writers who favour the vegetable regimen, 158. Men, ungodly, what they have done, 111.
Mercy required, 110. Mice, of destroying, 50. Milk, 150.
Milk, how eaten, in different counties, 177.
Milk of cows, mentioned by Homer, 12. Minorca, 199'.
Monkey, killed by Stedman, 250.
Morality, how it is made to cease respecting brutes, 19. Mosaic records against ani- mal food, 11.
Murder interdicted by the Cambian indians, by the Kamtschatkans, by some christians, 112.
Mutilation of animals, 23, 189. National protection wanted, 254.
Naggers, of the traffic of, 32. Nightshade, 239. Objections answered, 223,-
Reason, the faculty of in ani- mals, 78; instanced in a horse, a pongo, 79; the beaver, 81.
Remarks generally, by Pope, 17; from the Guardian, 19. Sacrifices of animals, not made anciently, 113.
Science worthless, when ac- quired at the expense of humanity, 38.
Scripture passages, how e- vaded, 115.
Scurvy caused by animal food, 151.
Selfishness, it's influence on sensibility, 124.
Shoes made without leather, 238.
Sheep fed on flesh, 230. Sheep, how tortured, 47. Sheep, their natural strength,
Skeletons, generally abhor- red, 124. Shooting, 75.
Slaughter of oxen, &c. in London, 50. South America, 200. Sor, 197.
Springs, remarkable for pu- rity, 157.
Stuffing birds and animals, 38.
Subsistence easily attained, 107. Superstition favourable to animals, 254. Swift's proposal, Teeth, 223.
Teeth decay, from exciting diet, 155.
Teeth of man not canine, 154. Tests of putrid water, 180.
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