Questions

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15237	An important point is, can a man on such food be fit for physical work?
15237	Certainly he has the choice, but does he avail himself of it to any considerable extent?
15237	Do you think that a Burmese boy would be allowed to birds''-nest or worry rats with a terrier, or go ferreting?
15237	If the ape tribe can thrive without added salt why should not man?
15237	It may be asked, says Professor Chittenden, was this diet at all adequate for the needs of the body-- sufficient for a man weighing 165 pounds?
43943	How may we avoid the painful maladies that are prevalent, and escape the surgeon''s knife?
43943	How may we be delivered from further participation in all this needless shedding of innocent blood?
43943	How may we live out our full length of days in health and vigour, instead of dying of disease?
43943	="Is Flesh- Eating Morally Defensible?
43943	="Shall We Vivisect?
43943	How can we consistently sing and talk of''Peace on Earth''when we are participating in ruthless warfare against the animal creation?
55555	Wilt thou draw near the Nature of the gods? 55555 ''Why, madam,''said the man,''you would n''t eat them alive, would you?''
55555	At rich men''s tables eaten bread and pulse?
55555	Filled with horror and indignation, I said:''How can you be so cruel as to put to death those little, innocent lambs?''
55555	Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
55555	I could respect the position of one who literally believed and consistently acted on this mandate, but where in Christendom can he be found?
55555	Loved the woodrose and left it on its stalk?
55555	The true Vegetarian will not be seen adorned(?)
55555	What have I ever done to you?''
38727	Can a return to nature, then, instantaneously eradicate predispositions that have been slowly taking root in the silence of innumerable ages?
38727	Could a set of men, whose passions were not perverted by unnatural stimuli, look with coolness on an_ auto da fè_?
38727	Could you read calm health in his cheek, flushed with ungovernable propensities of hatred for the human race?
38727	How can we take the benefits and reject the evils of the system which is now interwoven with all the fibres of our being?
38727	How could they starve her into compliance with their views?
38727	How many groundless opinions and absurd institutions have not received a general sanction from the sottishness and intemperance of individuals?
38727	How much longer will man continue to pimp for the gluttony of death, his most insidious, implacable, and eternal foe?
38727	Is it impossible to realize a state of society, where all the energies of man shall be directed to the production of his solid happiness?
38727	Is it to be believed that a being of gentle feelings, rising from his meal of roots, would take delight in sports of blood?
38727	Was Nero a man of temperate life?
38727	What is the cause of morbid action in the animal system?
38727	What prolific sources of disease are not those mineral and vegetable poisons that have been introduced for its extirpation?
22829	All these and many other questions are answered in Prof. Andrews Great Book What Shall We Eat?
22829	But when he sees the grazing ox, or the wallowing hog, do similar gustatory desires affect him?
22829	Can anyone deny that Nature intended the cow''s milk for the nourishment of her calf and the hen''s egg for the propagation of her species?
22829	How much does the ordinary individual know about nutrition, or about obedience to an unperverted appetite?
22829	Is it not evident that it is because of this lamentable ignorance so many people nowadays suffer from ill- health?
22829	Is it reasonable to suppose that Nature ever intended the milk of the cow or the egg of the fowl for the use of man as food?
22829	May it not be that wrong feeding and mal- nutrition are at the root of most disease?
22829	Moreover, what effect has the work of a slayer of animals upon his personal character and refinement?
22829	The first question about vegetarianism, then, is this:--Is it the best diet from the hygienic point of view?
22829	What animal possesses the enormous strength of the herbivorous rhinoceros, who, travellers relate, uproots trees and grinds whole trunks to powder?
48589	***** Does it not hurt the innocent lamb when you cut its little throat?
48589	65: 4), but what care the pharisee so long as he intends pleasing the palate rather than obey the law of his God and conscience?
48589	A DEVOUT(?)
48589	Are you not a little bit radical on the subject of Humanitarianism?
48589	Do I not work hard and do I not know that I need meat to sustain me in my manual labor?
48589	Do church people get angry at your philosophy?
48589	Do not some people believe it is right to slay and eat lower animals?
48589	Do not the lower animals prey upon one another, and do not the big fish eat the little fish?
48589	Do you actually consider flesh eating the most abominable of sins?
48589	Do you not kill insects when you drink water; and do you not cripple and trample harmless bugs to death with every step you take?
48589	Do you object to the infidel eating flesh food?
48589	Do you really think carnivorous churchites are not of God?
48589	Does it not hurt the cow when you wield the axe with tremendous force against its forehead?
48589	Does it not hurt the little calf when you take its tender life?
48589	Does it not hurt the sheep when in the agonies of death?
48589	Does it not hurt when the goat pitifully gurgles the sound"Oh Lord,"as its life- blood is passing the butcher''s knife?
48589	Has not environment throughout one''s life something to do with our eating of flesh?
48589	Have not vegetables life?
48589	If the Bible teaches me to slay and eat have I not a right to eat flesh?
48589	If there is no personal God, who created this world?
48589	Is not that a miserable symbolization of"Divine Love"and"Peace?"
48589	Is not the devil in your philosophy?
48589	Is not the survival of the fittest a natural law; consequently being superior I may slay and eat?
48589	Is not your feeling toward animals mawkish sentimentality?
48589	Is that why you eat flesh?
48589	Q. I know animals have fear and pain, but supposing God did place them on earth for man to slay and eat, what then?
48589	Suppose man lives in a country where he can not find vegetarian food?
48589	The Bible says: Who knoweth that the spirit of man goeth upward and the spirit of the beast goeth downward?
48589	To the slaughter?
48589	We carry ourselves aloof from these awful(?)
48589	We hear many testimonies from the lips of these people praising this wonderful(?)
48589	What do you think of religious emotionalism and ecstasy?
48589	What is your conception of God?
48589	What right have twelve jurors to virtually cancel the life of a murderer?
48589	What shall we do with all the animals if we do not kill them?
48589	What were YOU created for?
48589	What were animals created for?
48589	Where would medical research be were it not for vivisection( torture) and killing animals for experiment in the interest of science?
48589	Whither?
48589	Why are all Vegetarians lank, lean and skinny?
48589	Would you"swat"a fly or kill a flea or a snake?
12238	''But what do they live upon?'' 12238 An''gin we''re no spared, will we hae parrich?"
12238	An''will wi hae tea to breakfast, mither?
12238	But why is lard called shortening, pa?
12238	Do you not drink wine?
12238	Is there anything you would like to drink with your soup?
12238	Pray what is your ordinary diet?
12238	What meal do we have in the morning?
12238	You think it unhealthful to eat that?
12238	_ Unhealthful?_exclaimed the Hidalgo, with a withering look and a gasp for a more adequate word;"No, sir: I think it an unnatural crime!"
12238	--_Colton._"What does cookery mean?"
12238	--_Oswald._ Good for Dyspepsia.--"Really, do n''t you think cheese is good for dyspepsia?"
12238	A meal-- what is it?
12238	A mother and child were passing along a street in Glasgow, when this conversation was overheard:--"What day is the morn, mither?"
12238	After an unsuccessful search in the pantry, he called to his wife,"Mary, where is the pie?"
12238	An appalling silence fell upon the crowd when Tommy cried out,"Mamma, is that the old sore- headed turkey?"
12238	But how can we expect the children to reform when the parents continually set them bad examples in the matter of eating and drinking?
12238	But who their virtues can declare?
12238	Do you know what that means, pa?"
12238	Has Nature indeed given us so insatiable a stomach, while she has given us so insignificant bodies?
12238	He handed the cob to the waiter, and asked,"Will you plaze put some more beans on my shtick?"
12238	He was well answered by an indignant Scotchman who replied,"Yes; and where can you find such fine men as in Scotland, or such horses as in England?"
12238	SIGNIFICANT FACT.--_Lady_--"Have you had much experience as a cook?"
12238	Said her husband,"Then where is the cake?"
12238	The ordinary salutation,"Che- fan,"which answers to our"How do you do?"
12238	They can not afford oranges, yet can afford tea and coffee daily.--_Health Calendar._ What plant we in the apple tree?
12238	What are bakers for?"
12238	What next?"
12238	What wonder, then, in the absence of sunlight, there is a lack of sunny temper and cheerful service?
12238	What?
12238	When Johnnie sits down to the table, the mother says,"Johnnie, what would you like?"
12238	_ Indignant chorus_--"Bread?
12238	_ L._--"What of?"
12238	_ L._--"Why did you leave them?"
12238	_ Tramp_--(frightened)"What ye say?"
12238	means,"Have you eaten your rice?"
12238	what worthier work than to help in the building up of bodies into pure temples fit for guests of noble thoughts and high purposes?
30478	But what are wind, flatulence, phlegm, and choler? 30478 But what is to be done?
30478	Do not children and young persons, that is, tender persons, live on milk and seeds, even before they are capable of much labor and exercise? 30478 Was Nero a man of temperate life?
30478	You ask me,continues Plutarch,"''for what reason Pythagoras abstained from eating the flesh of brutes?''
30478	And do not these considerations, if they prove any thing, prove quite too much?
30478	And does any one, who has read his remarks, doubt that his"convictions"were in favor of the exclusive use of vegetable food?
30478	And if children thus thrive the best, why not adults?
30478	And if so, when and where?
30478	And if this oil tends to induce disease, and farinaceous food does not, why should not animal food be excluded?
30478	And must it not, then, have a deteriorating tendency?
30478	And must not all nations, as society progresses and the millennium dawns, crowd out the animals in the same way?
30478	And now, I ask again, what will he eat?
30478	And what is it, indeed,_ but_ a febrile paroxysm?
30478	And who would not regard female character as tarnished by a familiarity with such scenes as those to which I have referred?
30478	And why, then, may not its universal adoption, after a few generations, banish disease entirely from the world?
30478	Are they not a nine- fold cord, not easily broken?
30478	At least, would not this be the result, if he were a disciple of Christianity?
30478	But again: who has not considered, that if a garden of a given size will half support a family, one twice as large would support it wholly?
30478	But are not wheat and corn, and many other grains, as well as the potato, improved by cookery?
30478	But can it be successfully controverted?
30478	But how is it to be avoided?
30478	But we prevent their coming into the possession of a joyous and happy existence; and though we have no name for it, is it not a crime?
30478	But who has not been familiar from his very infancy with the maxim, that"a good garden will half support a family?"
30478	But, granting even the most that the friends of animal food can claim, what would the case of Dr. Preston prove?
30478	Can a return to nature, then, instantaneously eradicate predispositions that have been slowly taking root in the silence of innumerable ages?
30478	Can any one-- I repeat the question-- can any one believe it?
30478	Can it, indeed, be otherwise?
30478	Can there be a doubt that he would direct his attention at first-- yes, and for a long time afterward-- to the vegetable world for his food?
30478	Could a set of men, whose passions were not perverted by unnatural stimuli, look with coolness on an_ auto da fe_?
30478	Could you read calm health in his cheek, flushed with ungovernable propensities of hatred for the human race?
30478	Did Muley Ismail''s pulse beat evenly?
30478	Did not Paul understand, at least as well as we, the precepts and example of our Saviour?
30478	Do not all the eastern and southern people live almost entirely on them?
30478	Does any one believe that, in these circumstances, man would prey upon the animals around him?
30478	Does any one believe this?
30478	For if a purely vegetable aliment, with water alone for drink, is safe to all young persons inclining at all to gout, to whom is it unsafe?
30478	For the question is continually asked,"If you dispense wholly with flesh and fish, pray what can you find to eat?"
30478	From the beginning, was it so?
30478	Had you fewer colds or other febrile attacks-- or the reverse?
30478	Have they not force?
30478	Have you selected, from your own observation, any articles in the vegetable kingdom, as particularly healthy, or otherwise?
30478	How bear the smell arising from the dissection?
30478	How can it be right to train our children to behold such slaughter?
30478	How can we take the benefits and reject the evils of the system, which is now interwoven with our being?
30478	How could a person in perfect health, and obeying to an iota all the laws of health-- how could he contract disease?
30478	How could he bear to see an impotent and defenceless creature slaughtered, skinned, and cut up for food?
30478	How could he endure the sight of the convulsed limbs and muscles?
30478	How know we that what is so efficacious in regard to the larger diseases, will not be equally so in the case of all smaller ones?
30478	How, then, can it otherwise happen than that a still closer approximation will afford a greater exemption still, and so on indefinitely?
30478	I?
30478	If this is not a true solution of the case, how happens it that there was no disease of any organ or function, except the nervous function?
30478	In short, where do we cross the line?
30478	In such circumstances, what could have been expected?
30478	In what other country of Asia are schools and early education in such high reputation as in Japan?
30478	Is a vegetable diet more-- or less aperient than mixed?
30478	Is it impossible to realize a state of society, where all the energies of man shall be directed to the production of his solid happiness?
30478	Is it likely that a diet on which he had so long been doing well, should produce such a sudden falling off?
30478	Is it not so?
30478	Is it not too late in the day of human improvement to meet them with no argument but ignorance, and with no other weapon but ridicule?
30478	Is it not, then, better for the purposes of health and longevity?
30478	Is it said, that there is no necessity of levity on these occasions?
30478	Is it said, that these remarks apply only to the_ abuse_ of a thing, which, in its place, is proper?
30478	Is it to be believed that a being of gentle feelings, rising from his meal of roots, would take delight in sports of blood?
30478	Is not man, in the first chapter of Genesis, constituted a vegetable- eater?
30478	Is this change of feeling desirable?
30478	Is this worthy of those who would educate the youth of our land on the principles of the Bible?
30478	May not this be owing to their simple vegetable living?
30478	Now, let me ask how much beef, or lamb, or pork, or sausages, or eggs, or cheese, this would buy?
30478	Now, what will they eat?
30478	On the contrary, would not every living human being revolt, at first, from the idea, let it be suggested as it might, of plunging his hands in blood?
30478	Pray, what animal food can be eaten which does not contain, at least, a small quantity of oil?
30478	Rush, has not smiled at what he must have regarded a feeling wholly misplaced, if nothing more?
30478	That the healthy are ever injured by the vegetable system?
30478	That the sickly would generally be?
30478	The females, especially, where shall we look for their equals?
30478	The men, even-- the Scotch and Irish, for example-- are they weaker than their brethren, the English, who use more animal food?
30478	Was his constitution ever altered?
30478	Was the mind clearer; and could it continue a laborious investigation longer than when you subsisted on mixed diet?
30478	Was this change accompanied by a substitution of cold water for tea and coffee, during the experiment?
30478	Was your bodily strength either increased or diminished by excluding all animal food from your diet?
30478	Were the animal sensations, connected with the process of digestion, more-- or less agreeable?
30478	What constitutional infirmities were aggravated or removed?
30478	What could they-- what would they-- expect from such an education of the young mind and heart?
30478	What countries like these have maintained their ancient, moral, intellectual, and political landmarks?
30478	What do they for Japan?
30478	What length of time, the trial?
30478	What would there be in his system which could furnish a nidus for its reception?
30478	What, indeed, but stopped perspiration, superfluous nourishment, inconcocted chyle, of high food and strong liquors, fermented and putrifying?
30478	What, then, is the bearing of_ this single and singular case_?
30478	When will the sons of men learn wisdom in this matter?
30478	Whence, then, the increase of weight by seventy- four pounds?
30478	Where are the inhabitants so well formed, so stout made, and so robust?
30478	Who is to stop the labor- saving machine, the railroad car, or the lightning flash of intelligence?
30478	Why is it that every thing is, in this respect, so stationary among the middle classes and the poor?
30478	Why is it that the more wealthy, all over Europe, who get flesh more or less, deteriorate in their families so rapidly?
30478	Will it not then, at last, either burst the vessel, or throw out the cork or stopples, and raise still more lasting and cruel tempests and tumults?
30478	Will they who fly to the Bible for their support, in this particular, please to tell us?
30478	Would he pass by the fields, with their golden ears?
30478	Would he pass by the mellow apple, hanging in richest profusion every where, inviting him as it were by its beauties?
30478	Would it not take months and years to reconcile his feelings-- his moral nature-- to the thought of flesh- mangling or flesh- eating?
30478	Yet where shall we find a more healthy and robust population, or one more enduring of bodily fatigue, and exhibiting more mental vivacity?
30478	Yet, where shall we look for finer specimens of bodily health, strength, and vigor, than in these very countries?
30478	did his eyes beam with healthfulness, and its invariable concomitants, cheerfulness and benignity?
30478	no crime for thirty- five millions of people to prevent and preclude the existence of sixty- three millions?
30478	said he, would you have me eat my neighbors?
30478	was his skin transparent?