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Jain Conference Herald.
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id well instructed Portuguese to surrender the impregnable for tress of assein were both vegetarians. Sadashivrao Bhao and Vishwasra, fought 2 the battle-field of Panipat with the fortitude and courage o'a hero upu Gokhale was a name of terror to the demoralized and luxury ving army of the Nizam. The Japanese who have impeded tl e rapid inquest of Asia by the Europeans live mainly on rice and other cereals.
In the 20th century when battalions are moved on th: battle:ld like pawns on a chess-board, a field Marshal who work with a eady aim and fixed purpose, undisturbed by the turmoils of ar, can sily gain victory over an army led by a person of an xcitable mperament. It has already been pointed out that flesh diet nakes a an excitable and rash. A cool temper and a cool mind are the ossessions of a Vegetarian only, and consequently he can j rosecute 8 studies in any branch of science undisturbed.
The students who are vegetarians possess .greater p wer of »plication and an unflinching devotion to study than the fles i eating udents can boast of. General Booth, the life spirit of the Salvation rmy once said to the Dresden Journalist that he was able to istain so much hard work and public speaking at night, at such an Ivanced age on account of his carefully selected Vegetable diet. ühn Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, gave up fle h eating ecause it brought on exhaustion and was injurious to hi health. on Roman De Maeztu, a Spanish writer says that every in ellectual an who leaves off eating meat and drinking alcoholic liquors will bserve in a short time that his mental powers will have increa jed. The ork of the digestive organs being lessened, greater energy i: left for eing spent on mental work.
The economical advantages of Vegetarianism press on our ttention the advisability of adopting it. It has been found ou; that a pan in India requires about 360 pounds of meat during one rear and hat this quantity of mutton can be obtained from nine fit sheep;
has also been ascertained that a sheep consumes in one ear grass growing on fifteen acres; calculating roughly ve may
| SR No. | 536506 |
| Book Title | Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1910 Book 06 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mohanlal Dalichand Desai |
| Publisher | Jain Shwetambar Conference |
| Publication Year | 1910 |
| Total Pages | 422 |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald, & India |
| File Size | 13 MB |