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arrived at by style only, since the Indians have the peculiar capacity of imitating style. I am sure, that the greater part of the philosophical portion of the Vedas has been manufactured secretly by later writers to make their slate clear as it suited them. What suited in majority of cases was either one's own composition or of a man belonging to the same school of philosophy. This is all due to the Hindu tendency of su ppressing the original Jain authority and making appear every thing Hindu.
To return to the point, I may say that, in modern times the food-stuffs have been scientifically analysed and it has been found that, highly nutritive elements for superceding those of meat can be found in such cheaper things as nuts, dried fruits etc. Besides it has been admitted unanimously by the modern investigators that, the effect of food on intellect is an unknown mystery of science. A fact too patent to require any proof is the statement a sound body has a sound mind " that is to say a man in sound or gccd health has greater capacity and aptitude for intellectual work of any appreciable extent whatever. Now many of the prevailing diseases in meat-eating countries are due to flesh food. The butcher's meat, though to all
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