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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

creatures.

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.

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INDEX.

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,

112.

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,

122.

Butchery, the trade of, 44,

119.

Butchers of Manchester, 255.
Butter-tree, 109.

Calves, how tortured, 47, 48. | Distilled water, it's salubri-

Cambia, 201.

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,

48.

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.

ty, 159.

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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,

181.

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,

102.

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.

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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.

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Mutilation of animals, 23, 189.
National protection wanted,
254.

Naggers, of the traffic of, 32.
Nightshade, 239.
Objections answered, 223,-

235.

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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,

48.

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.

236.

Teeth decay, from exciting
diet, 155.

Teeth of man not canine, 154.
Tests of putrid water, 180.

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