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prepare their dogs for the chase, to do that they confine the diet of hounds to flesh, so that their animal propensities are enhanced. This food would not give more strength to the hounds, but gives them more aninial nature, and makes them more eager to kill. If we compare flesh eating people and vegetarians intellectually, the Hindus have evolved a very subtle and deep philosophy, the like of wbich is not to be found in any other country. In India when a deep philosophical subject is discussed, the masses understand at once without asking a single question, and the street-sweeper understands these questions better than the inissionary who is sent to convert him. No reasoning intellectual, intelligent person would stick to habit when he realizes these things; he comes to the conclusion that animal food is not designed for human beings. It certainly becomes a cause of many diseases. Cancer is caused by ineat-eating. The hurts of vegetarians are healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters. Sinall-pox is considered a very dangerous disease in this couutry, but the people in India have not the slightest fear of this epide:nic at all. If a man falls ill of this disease his friends will come to him every day, and do not catch the disease, and they are never afraid of these things. It is only when the temperature goes up to 110 degrees that you will find any epidemic in India, and then cholera is the result. As an experience in daily life, those who eat meat know
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