A vindication of natural diet Quotes

“It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation. It is only the wealthy that can, to any great degree, even now, indulge the unnatural craving for dead flesh, and they pay for the greater licence of privilege, by subjection to supernumerary diseases.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“The change which would be produced by simpler habits on political economy is sufficiently remarkable. The monopolising eater of animal flesh would no longer destroy his constitution by devouring an acre at a meal … The quantity of nutritious vegetable matter consumed in fattening the carcase of an ox, would afford ten times the sustenance, undepraving indeed, and incapable of generating disease, if gathered immediately from the bosom of the earth.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“He will hate the brutal pleasures of the chase by instinct; it will be a contemplation full of horror and disappointment to his mind, that beings capable of the gentlest and most admirable sympathies should take delight in the death-pangs and last convulsions of dying animals.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“The proselyte to a simple and natural diet, who desires health, must from the moment of his conversion attend to these rules:

NEVER TAKE ANY SUBSTANCE INTOT HE STOMACH THAT ONCE HAD LIFE.

DRINK NO LIQUID BUT WATER RESTORED TO ITS ORIGINAL PURITY BY DISTILLATION.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“He will embrace a pure system, from its abstract truth, its beauty, its simplicity, and its promise of wide-extended benefit; unless custom has turned poison into food, he will hate the brutal pleasures of the chase by instinct; it will be a contemplation full of horror and disappointment to his mind, that beings capable of the gentlest and most admirable sympathies should take delight in the death-pangs and last convulsions of dying animals.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“He will find, moreover, a system of simple diet to be a system of perfect epicurism.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“Every man forms, as it were, his god from his own character; to the divinity of one of simple habits, no offering would be more acceptable than the happiness of his creatures. He would be incapable of hating or persecuting others for the love of God.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“The proselyte to a pure diet must be warend to expect a temporary dimunition of muscular strength. The subtraction of a powerful stimulus will suffice to account for this event. But it is only temporary, and is succeeded by an equable capability for exertion far surpassing his former various and fluctuating strength. Above all, he will acquire an easiness of breathing, by which the same exertion is performed with a remarkable exemption from that painful and difficult panting now felt by almost every one after hastily climbing an ordinary mountain. He will b e equally capable of bodily exertion of mental application after as before his simple meal. He will feel none of the narcotic effects of ordinary diet.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“On a natural system of diet, old age would be our last and our only malady: the term of our existence would be protracted; we should enjoy life, and no longer preclude others from the enjoyment of it; all sensational delights would be infinitely more exquisite and perfect; the very sense of being would then be a continued pleasure, such as we now feel it in some few and favoured moments of our youth.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“On a natural system of diet, old age would be our last and our only malady.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“Man resembles no carnivorous animal.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab

“Let 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 streaming 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.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A vindication of natural diet: Being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab