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EDENIC DIET. 
Tin* I'iitli to llfidtli :tinl 1'ii‘cilom. ~-- 
As the Ljfe is, so is the Man! 
* [Kakmv.] 
Published by Isaac and Sara Kumt'ord, :»7t 11 and drove Sts., 
Oakland, Alameda Co. Cal. 
Dee. 188o. PREFACE. 
Our friends have often remarked “why don’t you give us an idea ot 
your Edenie work in a compact form?” After thinking the matter 
over we wrote to many friends to aid us with their experience and 
among the answers came the following letter which like many other 
things lias a secret and an open history : the former but little known 
to us, the latter is this, our friend has for two years lived the Edenie 
life, as few have done it. With the letter came this caution “If you 
publish it, Immorality will in one guise or another attack you.” We 
asked “what do you mean by “Immorality?” He answered “that in 
man which prompts him to interfere with or to make impossable the 
pursuit of happiness of any man or of any beast; in man which 
prompts him to bring into the world physical bodies which by reason 
ot disease or imperfection are unfit for any soul to inhabit; that in man 
which is the cause of intemperance in eating, drinking, and working; 
of folly, of self-admiration of self-delusion, of self-justification: in one 
word; that which is the cause of all sorrow and pain—Ignorance! ’ The 
answer struck us as good, but while we did not fear the attack on our- 
selves we wanted to know his idea of the consequence of this “Immor- 
ality’' on the doer. He answered repeated returns into the seen world 
with unhappiness in their train. Every thought and deed, good or 
bad produces a corresponding effect in the Unseen World, or is to use 
the words of the Revelator inscribed in the Book of Ljfe out of w ich 
after a long rest in the Subjective State either of heaven or ot hell 
prompted by unsatesfied desire we return into aphysieal body and are 
judged according to out w >rk. This is an ancient thought long for- 
gotten Law of Life. 
Swedenborg, the Seer, has truly said, Evil punishes itself." Thus far 
our friend. We believe the well disposed and thoughtful will see jus- 
tice in his arguments. 
We are frequently asked, What do you think of the mind-cure, does 
it not do away witn the need of the Edenie Diet? We answer, By no 
means, they should go together! “Mind Eure which we have studied 
and now practice, teaches only a part of what the Ancient Wisdom 
Religion teaches namely, that if we live in tin* Animal Soul subject to 
iis desires and tin* penalties that follow them which come in the form 
of discontent and disease, we shall never be happy, but if we rise out 
of the Animal Soul into the Human Soul we become free from these 
desires and penalties and acquire divine power to heal ourselves and 
others. 
It has been stated that we can heal and keep healed without any re- 
ference to what we eat, but this is a fallacy, which, those that have 
lud yel learned, will learn.* We have not yet reached Christ-hood — 
that we can be independent of the Material Body and with impurity 
load ourselves with poisons whether m the form of decaying bodies of 
animal , or alcohol, tobacco and drugs. We have not yet experienced 
in ourselves the fulfilment of St. Mark XVI, 18. The object of tlie 
Edenie Life and Diet is to prevent even tlie necessity of resorting to 
“Mind Cure” —in other words, it is to teach man to he constantly well 
in Soul and Body; to use the powers of the Human Soul .for higher 
purposes as the powers of the Animal Soul are used for lower. 
* A planter building in ay bo made to appear as and like stone by deceiving; the 
s enses but is it. See Matt chap. IV verse 7 also Thess 11 11 and 12. THE EDENIC DIET. 
A LETTER. 
Friend. Tt is desired I should give some reasons why I abstain 
not onlv from flesh-food but also from cooked food. ] will. I have 
three general reasons: 
I. THE ANATOMIC-PHYSIOLOGICAL REASON. 
“ Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope 
that is in you.”—I Peter, III, 15. 
There are traditional, chemical, and anatomic-physiological rea- 
sons for eating what is eaten. 
The majority eat what they eat because their fathers ate it. Like 
traditional “worship of God” this has its origin in ignorance and 
mental thraldom. J pass it in sorrow. 
Some eat what ftiey eat to supply the I6st chemical elements of 
the body. They imagine their brain needs phosphorus, and eat it; 
or that their teeth need silica, and eat it; or that their blood lacks 
iron, and eat it. A rather unfoolish reason for eating. Still, I pass it. 
Others eat what they eat because they believe that the “inner 
needs of an animal are proclaimed by its external structure.” There 
is wisdom in this. Let us consider it. 
Your tongue is a combination of auger, saw, and suction-pump; 
you flit about, but find no juicy plant,— what you flit about for,— 
and you meet a huge, pot-bellied “anatomy” of a “man,” full of hot, 
feverish juice, and, you rush at him, and bore, and saw, and suck 
to your little heart’s content. “Cursed pest of a mosquito!” But 
never mind: “Om,” “God,” “Nature,” gave you the tools; go on, 
use them. 
Or, your teeth are long, sharp, and crooked; your paws are clawed; 
you roam about in the jungle seeking food for yourself and those 
hungry cubs that are with you; how empty your dugs are; how the 
cubs tug at them; how they whine because they find nothing in 
them. Here is a rice field. See the merry birds that flv about and 
fill their craws with the pure, white grains. Draw nign and feed; 
—poor, hungry mother; those screaming cockatoos and those 
chattering monkeys in yonder palm-tree mock you, because those 
long, sharp, crooked teeth, unfit for cutting and grinding, fit only 2 
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for tearing, prevent you. There are those famished babes; how 
they tug at your milkless dugs for some sweet, warm, life-giving 
juice; how they whine. And, you lick them, and lie down, and roar 
a “savage thunder-peal of woe.” But, hark! the leaves rustle; a 
brahmin approaches, a future Buddha, lank, as yourself, but yet of 
flesh; of stuff tearable! “Ho! mother,” cries he, “here is meat for 
thee!”—and 
“the great cat's burning breath 
Mixed with the last sigh of such fearless love.” 
—Light of Asia. 
Poor mother, you did well. Your “Maker” sent that brahmin. 
“The savage brute, that haunts in woods remote, 
And deserts wild, tears not the fearful traveller. 
If hunger, or some injury, provoke not.” 
—Rowe. 
Or, you have no auger, saw and suction-pump; no long, sharp, 
crooked teeth, and claws; you have short, even, compact teeth, 
wherewith to cut, crack, grind; you have hands wherewith to climb, 
pluck, put into your mouth. You are hungry. See, up in this tree 
are nuts; up; pluck; crack; eat. Thy “Heavenly Father” loveth a 
monkev, as much as He loveth a tiger, or a mosquito, and He 
caused these nuts to grow tor thee. 
Prof. Schlickeysen, of Germany—a man, because he seems to 
have a spirit, a soul and a mind in that body of his; with a strong 
tendency in him, too, to become (or to be already, for aught I 
know) as Edward Maitland would say, a“whole man,”*—puts it 
thus: “The proper food of every individual is indicated by his 
physical organization.” Here I am just out of apedom (what millions 
of years have passed since I climbed the trees, a nut-plucking, nut- 
cracking, nut-eating orang, does not, at present concern me), with 
what I think, a spirit, a soul and a mind in my physical 
body; with thirty-two teeth in my mouth; teeth fit for cutting, 
cracking and grinding; teeth unfit for tearing; teeth characterized 
by “a complete absence of intervening spaces” (Iook for such teeth 
below higher apedom, and when you find them, tell me); with nail- 
clad hands; hands fit for plucking, opening and conveying to the 
mouth; hands unfit for clawing. Am I a juice-sucking mosquito 
that 1 should attack a bloated “Christian?” Am I a tearing, clawing 
tiger that I should attack a “heathen?” Am I a climbing monkey 
that I should jump from tree to tree and crack nuts; or, am I an 
upright-walking, apelike man that should walk about, pluck and 
eat grain, nuts and fruit? 
My ears have been filled with babble about “canine” teeth. 
“You have canine teeth,” says a would-be physiologist. Sorry 
canine teeth I have; would make poor work were I to tear a gazelle 
with them, as, probably, I tore, billions of years ago, when, as a 
cruel, bloodv-jawed beast, I roamed about in field and forest. The 
*“The Higher Aspects of Vegetarianism,” by Edward Maitland. “Dietetic Reformer,” 
London. the: edenic diet. 
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fact is, O mock-mouthed paroquets, I have no canine teeth, but 
eye teeth; nut-crackers. 
The canine-teeth sciolist might point out the enormous eye teeth 
ot the adult gorilla as tearing tools. Be collected, and hurl at him 
this lightning of deus Huxley: “The great development of the e\ e 
teeth of the adult gorilla might seem to indicate a flesh diet; but 
the animal possesses no other characteristic of the carnivora.” The 
gorilla’s eye-teeth are only enormous nut-crackers. Fare thee well, 
canine-teeth booby! 
Tn health, fruit-eaters secrete a large quantity of a slightly alka- 
line saliva, which transforms the starch of the well-chewed vegetable 
food into sugar. Digestion half done! Flesh-eaters secrete a small 
quantity of sour, saline saliva that dissolves the flesh-food whole; no 
cutting, grinding, rotating, insalivating of their food; an engorging 
of it. A likeness here of carrion-crow and carrion-man. 
Alkaline saliva does not dissolve flesh, only mixes with it; helps 
to rot it. M. Defreshne experimented and proved that this saliva 
is paralized in pure gastric juice, but that with a mixed gastric juice 
containing only vegetable acids, the starch of the vegetable food 
is turned into sugar as well as in the mouth; an additional reason in 
favor of a vegetable diet for man. 
The juice secreted bv a fruit-eater’s stomach acts upon the 
already half-digested food (the chyme) received from the mouth, and 
continues the work of digestion and absorption; but it is far too 
weak to act upon fibres of flesh. Hence a process of decay in the 
stomach of the flesh-eating fruit-eater, with heart-burn, eructations, 
and destruction of the teeth. 
The juice secreted by the stomach of a flesh-eater, say, a lion, ex- 
erts a decomposing influence upon the flesh-fibre and causes its as- 
similation and excretion. I shall pass the excessive, injurious se- 
cretion of bile, the change of urine, the offensive perspiration, and 
the foulness of the excrement of a fruit-eater that becomes a flesh- 
eater, and consider some facts that our canine-teeth philosophers 
never even hint at. 
First, the stomach of flesh-eaters (e. g. hyena and lion) is a small, 
roundish sack, in which their food can digest without much move- 
ment. Second, the stomach of grain and fruit-eaters (the higher 
ape and man) is large and full of folds for the rotatory movement 
necessary in their slower, digestive process. Third, the stomach of 
the herb and grass-eaters (the sheep and ox) is still larger, being in 
some cases composed of four sacks, because grasses require more 
work and time for digestion than grain and fruit. Fourth, the gut 
of a lion is three times the length of the body; the gut of a man, or 
an orang, nearly twelve; and the gut of a sheep, twenty-five. Fifth, 
the skin of flesh-eaters has no sweat-glands; the skin of herb and 
fruit-eaters has millions. The cause of this difference, says Prof. 
Schlickeysen, lies in the fact that the chiefly nitrogenous flesh-food 4 
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does not require so high a degree of heat-radiation and perspiration 
as does the more carbonaceous fruit and vegetable food. The flesh- 
eaters, therefore, perspire only through the lungs, and hence their 
great ayersion to stoing into water, since water causes no activity of 
the blood in the skin. 
Are these things the result of chance, or law, and, do they teach? 
Germany’s Darwin, Ernest Haeckel, says: “the scientific zoologist is 
compelled, whether it is agreeable to him or not, to rank man with- 
in the order of the true ape (simie.)” And, why not? The form of 
man and the higher ape is nearly alike; muscles, nerves, spleen, 
liver, lungs, and brains are; the minute structure of skin, nails, and 
hair is; the structure of the eye i$; the blood’ corpuscles are. Dar- 
win thinks that man has lost hair in consequence of sexual selec- 
tion. Mark the “curious coincidence” that the face and ears of man 
and the higher ape are bare; that both become gray-haired; that 
upon the upper arm the hairs in both are directed downward, and 
upon the lower, upward, which is not the case with the lower apes. 
1 do not wish to be understood to say that the pure 
types of flesh-eaters, grass-eaters, and fruit-eaters enumerated, 
stand isolated from one another without intermediate links; far 
from it; for, there is the dog with canines less developed than those 
of the tiger; the hyena, which, for this reason, prowls for carrion; 
the bear, which, although he prefers berries, milk, and honey, eats 
flesh when hunger pinches him; and lastly, there is the all-devour- 
ing hog. But these animals are fast approaching an exclusively 
vegetable diet. It may take millions of years to bring about this, 
but it will be done, 1 pass the minor animals, the gnawers, insect- 
eaters, and toothless plant-eaters. The pure types, as well as the 
intermediate, are also among them very numerous. 
I could say something about the ante-natal differences between 
flesh-eaters and fruit-eaters; placental and other differences, but 1 
forbear. Consult the table on opposite page, for which I am in- 
debted to Prof. Schlickeysen’s excellent and recommendable work, 
“Bread and Fruit”: 
II. THE SANITAY REASON. 
“O, amiable, lovely death ! 
Thou odoriferous stench ! sound rottenness ! 
I will kiss thy detestable bones ; 
And be a carrion monster like thyself. 
—Shakespeare. 
The saliva of the human mouth does not digest flesh, nor does the 
juice of the stomach; but, in combination with the heat of the body 
they promote decay; a graveyard process that causes heart-burn, 
eructations, destruction of the teeth, and a putrid, loathsome, 
poisonous stench from the mouth. Fie, such alligator mouths; such 
unenjoy able, unkissable mouths, with lips guarding the ventilator 
of a charnel-house! Fie, human teeth garnished with the rotting ♦The figures in the center represent number of incisors; upon each side the canines, followed to the right and left by the molars. 
THE FLESH-EATERS. 
THE MANLIKE APE. 
MAN. 
THE ALL-EATERS. 
Zouary Placenta 
Four-footed 
Have claws (like the cat) 
Go on all fours 
Have tails 
Eyes look sideways 
Skin without pores 
Slightly developed incisor teeth 
Pointed molar teeth 
Dental formula: 
*5 to 8. 1. 6. 1. 5 to 8. 
5 to 8. 1. 6. 1. 5 to 8. 
Small salivary glands. 
Acid reaction of saliva and 
Discoidal placenta 
Two hands and two feet. 
Flat nails 
Walks upright 
Without tails 
Eyes look forward 
Millions of pores 
Well developed incisor teeth 
Blunt molar teeth 
Dental formula 
*5. 1. 4. 1. 5. 
5. 1. 4. 1. 5. 
Well developed salivary glands 
Alkaline reaction of saliva and 
Discoidal placenta 
Two hands and two feet 
Flat nails 
Walks upright 
Without tail 
Eyes look forward 
Millions of pores 
Well developed incisor teeth 
Blunt molar teeth 
Dental formula 
*5. 1. 4. 1. 5. 
5. 1.4. 1. 5. 
Well developed salivary glands 
Alkaline reaction saliva and 
Non-deciduate placenta 
Four footed 
Have hoofs (like the hog) 
Go on all fours 
Have tails 
Eyes look sideways 
Skin with pores 
Very well developed incisor teeth 
Molar teeth in folds 
Dental formula 
*8. 1. 2. to 3. 1. 8. 
8. 1. 2. to 3. 1. 8. 
Well developed salivary glands. 
Saliva and urine acid 
urine 
Rasping tongue 
Teats on abdomen 
Stomach simple and roundish 
Intestinal canal 3 times length 
of the body. 
Colon smooth 
Live on flesh 
urine 
Smooth tongue 
Mammary glands on breast 
Stomach with duodenum (as 
second stomach) 
Intestines 12 times length of the 
body 
Colon evoluted 
Lives on fruit 
urine 
Smooth tongue 
Mammary glands on the breast. 
Stomach with duodenum (as 
second stomach) 
Intestines 12 times the length of 
the body 
Colon convoluted 
Homo sapiens Vegetus—eat fruit 
Smooth tongue 
Teats on abdomen 
Stomach simple and roundish, 
large cul-tle-sac 
Intestines 10 times length of the 
body 
Intestines smooth and convoluted 
Live on flesh, carrion, and plants 
From Prof. Schlickeysen’s Excellent Work, “Bread and Fruit.” 
TABLE OF COMPARISONS. 6 
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flesh of all kinds of animals! A fine sight this: a “nice,” Christian 
lady at a table loaded with the more or less decomposed flesh of 
frog, fish, fowl, swine, sheep, and cow. A “horrid” sight this: an 
unchristian, Congo nigger at a log loaded with the flesh of caterpil- 
lar, scorpion, hyena, and vulture, finishing his meal with a few 
handfuls of intestinal worms from a half-decayed horse near by. 
See the little parasites between the teeth of the “nice” lady; and, 
the big maggots between the teeth of the “dirty” nigger! Fie! Why 
disgust at the bare mention of the nigger’s dainties? Is not flesh 
flesh, whether of maggot or of swine? Have you ever dined on 
maggots? 
“But the meat we buy is fresh and undiseased.” Pah! tell me, 
little woman, at what precise moment putrefaction of a carcass sets 
in, and I will tell thee where selfishness ends and unselfishness be- 
gins! As to undiseased flesh; you, and the butcher, and the cattle- 
breeder, know as much about the health of an animal as the—man 
in the moon! You are neither microscopists nor pathologists, and 
even if you were—disease is always invisible! 
The animals slaughtered for the market are as a rule diseased. 
We find among them consumption, foot-and-mouth disease, malig- 
nant pustule, dropsy from affections of the heart or kidneys, indi- 
gestion with apoplectic symptoms, variola, measles, rot, typhoid, 
cholera, etc. Disease is more common among domesticated ani- 
mals than among wild; but even the latter, especially the flesh-eat- 
ers, are by no means free from it. Prof. Jean Vilain, while in 
Sahara, dissected fifty lions; of these, twenty had their lungs af- 
fected, almost one-half gone. A hyena showed a stomach dotted 
with scars of boils. Tigers sometimes spit blood and show ex- 
haustion. Monkeys in captivity die of consumption. Dogs are 
often diseased.—“Revue Zoologique.” 
M. Milne-Edwards thinks the swine was prohibited the Jews and 
Mohammedans because of its intestinal worms. He attributes also 
the general use of hot drinks in Eastern countries, like tea in 
China, to the knowledge of the presence of noxious little animals 
in water, or its pollution by unclean animals. He cites the case of 
a patient in Cochin China, who, within twenty-four hours, evacuat- 
ed more than a hundred-thousand worms, taken into the system in 
a larval state, in water. 
The vile stuff called “Oleomargarine,” which, nowadays, under the 
guise of butter, graces the table of rich and poor, is full of larval 
forms and eggs of parasites. Like a painted, powdered, “made-up” 
face, it does not bear microscopic inspection. 
Flesh food causes a feverish condition of the blood. The pres- 
ence in it of worn-out particles, refuse matter, constantly in pro- 
cess of elimination in the living animal, especially the presence of 
nicotine, a substance as injurious as strychnine and nicotine, irri- 
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he says, ‘‘all true foods, as grain and fruits, exert a quieting and 
cooling influence upon the body. “Bread and Fruit,” p. 134. 
Moreover, flesh charges the blood with fibrin, which also causes 
unnatural heat, or inflammation, and thus an excessive secretion of 
gall; an additional cause of irritation. 
Here, a word about beef-tea—water with waste material in it. 
Analyzed: yields the same ingredients as urine. Feed the scurvv 
slop to the sick; it will “strengthen” and “build up.” 
The skin of a flesh-eatimr man has, by reason of the impurities 
thrown to the surface, a peculiar sour, hyena-like stench, especially 
to one that lives on uncooked food. When you visit a menagerie 
and pass from the grain and grass-eating animals to the flesh-eat- 
ing, you cannot fail to notice a difference of odors; the first endur- 
able and unpoisonous, the second unendurable and poisonous. In a 
smaller degree (and sometimes not so small either), there is the 
same difference between a fruit eating man and a flesh-eating. The 
former is odorless, the latter is odorate. There are men constantly 
“in bad odor”. Let these use strong soap, hot water, and perfumes: 
let them often change; still, like the “damned spot” on Lady Mac- 
beth’s hand, the hyena-like stench will not out.” 
The germs of disease and the stenches that spread abroad from 
slaughter houses and meat-shops are detrimental to health. I have 
for months worked in dissecting rooms, and sometimes on corpses 
that were green from putrefecation; yet, if blind-folded and led to a 
dissecting room and to a meat shop, should not be able, merely from 
the stench, to tell one place from the other. Still, experience has 
taught me that the stench of roasting or cooking human flesh is far 
more offensive than roasting or cooking animal flesh. A cannibal 
might differ with me. 
But, “there are Boards of Health, Sanitary Commissions, Meat 
Inspectors, and Health Officers!” Yes; and they thrive in 
emanations from slaughter houses, hospitals, dissecting- 
rooms, breweries, distilleries, saloons, bawdy-houses, meat-shops, 
gutters, sewers, swill-barrels, and cess-pools; and—“find the sani- 
tary condition of our city excellent.” 
“These be thy goods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the 
land of Egypt.” 
“We live in deeds, not years,—in thoughts, not breaths— 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial;— 
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives. 
Who thinks most—feels the noblest—acts the best.” 
—Baily. 
III. THU MORAL REASON. 
Let us pass the attitude of the church with regard to vegetarian- 
ism, and let us consider the moral reason in its favor, which, to me, 
is far weightier than the anatomical, physiological, and sanitary. 
♦“The Natural Cure,” by E. C. Page, M. D. Fowler & Wells, New York. “The Per- 
fect Way in Diet,” by Anna Kingsford, M. D. London. 8 
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I dislike “reform” and “morality” from certain quarters: from 
“emotional swill-barrels” in pulpits and on platforms; Irom men 
“whose souls are functional to their bodies only as salt is to pork, 
in preventing' imminent putrefaction;” from men with “porcine 
paunches”; from men with ever-pregnant wives! 
I dislike “Reformer’s” with expurgated Bibles and Shakespeares 
in one pocket, and unexpurgated newspapers in the other; moral 
hyenas that delight in the exaggeration anti publication of the er- 
rors and falls of their poor fellow-men! 
I dislike “Infidels,” “Radicals,” and “Liberals,” who through the 
fumes of eighteen centuries of lust, appetite, and falsification, look 
at the teaching of the Nazarene Christ, and lay to it the sorrow, suf- 
fering, and crime around them. 
But I love the morality and reform of a Buddha, a Jesus, a 
Pythagoras, an Appollonius and a Plato; the morality and reform 
of the saints, Christs, and gods, who, though hidden from the pro- 
fane, are yet>in the flesh; morality and reform begun “at nome!” 
THE FIRST MORAL OBJECTION TO FLESII EATING. 
“The poor beetle that we tread upon, 
In corporal suffering feels a pang as great 
As when a giant dies.” 
—Shakespeare. 
You should visit vivisection laboratories and slaughter houses. 
Tt is instructive to see a bitch, big with pups, which has just 
licked your hands and looked into your eyes for sympathy, muzzled, 
tied, and strapped to a table; to see her ripped open; to see the cubs 
taken out and placed before her nose, that the experimenter may 
learn whether she recognizes them or not. The sick gain by it, 
don’t they? 
It is also instructive to see a cow, big with calf, which has sup- 
plied you and your children with sweet, warm milk, jerked up into 
the air by a chain attached to one of her hind-feet; to see her ham- 
mered senseless; to see an eye or two hammered out of her head 
before she becomes senseless; to see her throat cut; to see her belly 
and womb ripped open; to see the nearly full-grown, living calf 
roll out on the floor; and to see him “despatched” by a few blows 
or kicks. 
I have seen this, and more too. 
The flesh of such a cow makes “delicious” roast for Sunday’s din- 
ner, after “divine service.” I have heard it dedicated in this fash- 
ion: “Heavenly Father, sanctify this meat for our use, and us for 
thy service; for Christ’s sake. Amen.” 
Sweet ladv, before you allow yonrself to be “shocked” at all this 
brutality and “profanity,” be sure that you and the butcher are not 
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“From whence, O mortal man, this gash of blood 
Have you derived, and interdicted food ? 
Be taught by me this dire delight to shun, 
Warned by my precepts, by my practice won; 
And when you eat the well-deserving beast, 
Think on the laborer of your field you feast!” 
—Ovid 
Minutius Felix (about 210 A. d.) wrote aa elegant dialogue, in 
which he represents one character saying: “We Christians dread 
the thoughts of murder, aud cannot bear to look on a carcass; and 
we so abhor human blood, that we abstain from that of beasts.” 
THE SECOND OBJECTION. 
“Kill not for Pity's sake -and, lest ye slay, 
The meanest thing upon its upward way." 
—Light of Asia. 
“Take not away the life you cannot give; 
For all things have an equal right to live." 
—Ovid. 
To say that animals are not immortal is stupid; to say that, they 
have no soul is idiotic; and to say that “God” teaches so, is lunacy. 
The sages of antiquity aud the sages of to-day are unanimous to 
the contrary. All that lives has a soul. True, not a soul of equal 
rank. For there are vegetable souls, animal, human, spiritual, and 
divine. And those strong souls that have reached divinity or 
Christhood, and have acquired a memory of their past incarnations, 
know and affirm, that the Ego, the Self, of every entity, descends 
from the Absolute and, if not too weak, ascends to It again through 
the one patn that leads through the seven kingdoms of Nature, the 
mineral, the vegetable, the animal, the human, and the remaining 
three kingdoms, * * * practically known only to the Christs 
and to those to whom in their good pleasure they reveal them. 
Heuce, “all life is sacred”, and “thou shalt not kill”. 
Jesus reached Christhood, and hence he knew the past incarnation 
of those with whom he came in contact, and foretold his own, fut- 
ure incarnation, as Job had foretold his, ages before. Matthew 
XVII, 12, 13. John XXI, 22, 23. Job XIX, 26. 
Do not suppose this progression of the soul through innumerable 
incarnations to be a new doctrine, conceived and brought forth by 
the fertile imagination of some Protestant deacon; for it was taught 
by Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Epimarchus, Empedocles, Cebes, Euri- 
pides, Plato, Virgil, Cicero, Hippocrates, Galen, Plotinus, Jam- 
blichus, Proclus, Boethius, Psellus, Synesius, Origen, Marsilius 
Ficinus, Cardan and Aristotle, and, in later days, by Sir Henry 
Vane, Saint Martin, Joseph Glanvil, Kant, Schelling, Jul. Muller, 
Van Helmont, the younger, Jean-Ernest Reynaud, Bulwer Lytton, 
Robert Southey; and Herder, Lessing, Schubert, and Lichtenberg 
seem to have favored it; not to speak of the ancient Italians, the 
Celtic Druids, the Scythians, and the millions of Asiatics of this 
day, who live and die in this faith.* 
* “Planchette; or the Despair of Science,” by E. S. Published by Roberts Bios., Boston. 10 
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“Moreover, something is, or seems, 
That teaches me with mystic gleams, 
Like glimpses of forgotten dreams, 
Of something felt, like something here; 
Of something done, I know not where,— 
Such as no language may declare.” —Tennyson. 
I pass in sorrow the selfish sophists that say the earth would be 
“overrun” with cattle if they were not slain and eaten, and the dul- 
lards that say the world would starve if no flesh were to be had; 
and that we should have no leather, if animals were not killed. 
A man that spoke from experience told me once that the fiercest, 
wildest, and hungriest beast will never attack a true man, a 
Saint, or a Christ; that such a beast will always respect a being su- 
perior to himself. There is not a shadow of doubt of it in my soul. 
“Every time you kill, or have killed, anything with which to sup- 
ply your table, you arrest and prolong the work of the spirit that is 
trying to build thereby an immortal form.”* 
THE THIRD OBJECTION. 
“Alas! how helpless is theology against a diet of bull beef.” 
—Father de Smet. 
A rather keen missionary that; a missionary with feelings in him, 
and eyes too in him; an uncommon missionary. Savage Sioux In- 
dians with paunches full of “bull-beef” on one side, an observing, 
despairing missionary on the other. A picture for St. Peter’s and 
St. Paul’s! 
The “successors” of the desciples of the Nazarene Christ have 
for centuries tried to establish a life according to his teachings upon 
a foundation of “bull-beef,” pork, and alcohol. With what success 
witnesseth the Inquisition, the burnt witches, the wars, the stand- 
ing armies, the iron-clad navies, the crippled soldiers, the burnt 
cities, the wasted fields, the widows, the orphans, the national debts, 
and the ever-contending sects. Swedenborg, the prophet of the 
“New Jerusalem” taught that when man became as fierce as a wild 
beast, yea, fiercer, he began to kill and to eat the killed—but he 
forgot to tell his followers, in plain language, that “bull-beef,” 
pork, alcohol, and tobacco make an unsteady foundation for a New 
Jerusalem, and hence, among us, a puny, sorry, abortive “New 
Jerusalem.” 
No peace, no “good-will among men,” no purity, no holiness on 
a foundation of carrion and poison; only sad, ugly, unvital abor- 
tions! 
*“The Four Fold Nature of Man”; a Lecture by George Chainey, Boston. THE EDENIC DIET. 
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THE FOURTH OBJECTION. 
“Women were originally the equals of mfen 
in physical strength as in other qualities.” * 
Man carries heavy burdens, his passions and appetites; but wom- 
an carries heavier; for in addition to her own passions and appe- 
tites, she carries the consequences of man’s. I should hate to be a 
woman, if, three times a day, I had to boil and broil, wash and 
wipe, lay and unlay, and if, at the same time, I had to bear child- 
ren. To have no time for thought, for soul-culture, for aspiration; 
as Plotinus would say, no time “for reduction of the Divine Germ to 
its simplest principles,” that it might consciously stand in the pres- 
ence of the “Divinity,” would soon dehumanize me. It is not 
strange woman is a mental and physical weakling, ever occupied as 
she is with the gratification of her own and man’s passions and appe- 
tites; that she is a restless, fitful, and frequently active little vol- 
cano; and that she, in her better moods, sighs and actually strug- 
gles for freedom. But let her take her eyes off the ballot-box; for 
feedom doth not inhabit it, and will therefore never come forth from 
it The slavery of those in whose hands the box is, the slavery of 
the “superior sex,” should be a standing admonition to her. There- 
fore, “hands off,” woman! thy freedom doth come, not by the bal- 
lot-box, nor by scholastic “cramming” but by the exaltation of thv 
mind above thy present exclusive life in the generative and gastric 
spheres. 
It has come to pass that “civilized” woman, through slavery, has 
degenerated to such a degree that an eminent physician and a 
chemist have expressed a wish for the State to interfere and pre- 
vent her from suckling her children, lest she communicate immor- 
ality and disease.§ 
Ah, sucb foolishness; to imagine a diseased tree can be cured by 
plucking its fruit. 
And, what is this I hear about the “old woman?” Let us say a 
wo*nan is destined to become “three-score years and ten.” For 
how many of these years would she be really agreeable to a man? 
About twenty; from the age of fifteen to thirty-five. What is it at 
this age that makes her agreeable? Smooth, soft, rosy, flesh; ability 
to minister in the generative and gastric spheres; ability to minister 
to goddess Venus’ ability to minister to god Venter. To minister 
to these gods is said to be delightful, but to judge from the host of 
“old women” in the world, it must be exhaustive. “Old woman,” 
is the pleasure worth the penalty? “Old woman,” dirty, wrinkled, 
mumbling, doting, “old woman,” get thee gone! I love young, 
clean, soft, warm, rosy flesh—the quality of the mind and the soul 
*“Man; Fragments of Forgotten History,” by two Chelas. London. Reeves & Turner, 1885. 
§Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. YII, p. 174. 12 
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in such flesh is to me as nothing, at most, a secondary consideration. 
Give me a fortune for gastric purposes, and rosy flesh for genera- 
tive! Get thee gone, “old woman;” had thy beauty of flesh imper- 
ceptibly faded, not into dirty, gibberish dotage, but into beauty of 
mind and soul, 1 might not have become averse to thee; my evanes- 
cent lust for thee might by degrees have become tempered into a 
lasting lovel 
The world is lull of “adoring” sophomores, poets, preachers, “re- 
formers,” and “perfect gentlemen,” all ready to “die” for “defence- 
less” woman. But, did you ever meet one of these heroes ready to 
live for woman bv not suffering her to be cooked, broiled, roasted, 
washed, and sucked to death? O quacks and impostors! 
THE PIFTH OBJECTION. 
“Restore your Queen.” 
—The Perfect Way, or the Finding of Christ. 
At this stage of evolution man lives consciously in his animal 
soul; ignorant of the fact that a higher, human soul; and a 
still higher, divine soul. And what is "lamentable, while he is ren- 
dered ferocious by flesh, brutish by beer, snappish by tea, fretful 
by coffee, infuriated bv alcohol, and leacherous by tobacco and 
pork, the seven inseparable demons of a spurious civilization, there 
is no possibility for the exaltation in him of the Apocalyptic wom- 
an (Rev. XT1), the “Queen ot Heaven,” “Our Lady,” the “Mother of 
God;” no possibility for him of a conscious life in the human soul, 
still less in the divine; and, he remains the intellectual brute he is. 
But when he rises above passion and appetite; when he looks be- 
yond the narrow confines of his Lower Self into the sphere of his 
Higher Self, from “earth” into “heaven,” from the “Beast” to the 
“Woman,” he sees that he is but a part of Universal Life, by count- 
less bonds connected with all that lives, and he becomes interested 
in the welfare of all, as much as in his own, he restores his “Queen,” 
and walks the earth with gentle step, lest he hurt a single, strug- 
ling fellow-being; ever ready to comfort, to forgive, to help up- 
ward; ever with his eyes on the goal of freedom from Desire and 
its train of torments—blessed Nirvana! 
“All life is Thy life, O Infinite One, and only the religious eye penetrates to 
the realm of True Beauty.”—Fichte. 
GAINS THROUGH SUN-COOKED FOOD. 
I. GAIN OP VITALITY. 
“Man did eat angel’s food.”—Ps. LXXVIII :25. 
One day a farmer saw me eating raw wheat and apples. He 
eyed me with astonishment, incredulity, and merriment when I told 
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it and sow it, what will you g-et?” ‘‘Nothing.” “Why not?” “Because 
the life is gone.” “Ah, it is just that life 1 want, hence I eat the 
wheat raw.” A new thought for a thick, but bv no means, stupid 
pate! Something to reflect upon in the future. Professor Schlickey- 
sen calls this life “electrical vitality.” A great deal has been 
written about the “nutritious” properties of foods, but not a word 
about the “vital,” and yet these are distinct. The absence of vital- 
ity in cooked vegetable food causes over-eating, sluggishness, and 
drowsiness; tne presence of it in uncooked, causes temperance, 
activity of mind, exhilaration, vigor, and elasticity. Therefore, let 
mother Nature’s cooking suffice. Do not, like a dolt, suppose you 
can improve upon it. Listen: 
“Nature does her cooking by sunlight. The great, glaring sun is her cook- 
stove, and by its aid she concocts, from such materials as water, carbonic 
acid, and ammonia, various palatable dishes, such as sugar, bread, greens, 
and a host of delicacies.” * 
II. GAIN OF HEALTH. 
“The ingredients of health and long life are 
Great temperance, open air; 
Easy labour, little care.’ 
—Sir Philip Sidney. 
Two-t,hirds of the diseases prevalent are curable by abstinence 
from food of animal origin, and by a temperate use of sun-cooked 
vegetables, grains, and fruits. Dr. Kadcliff used to say, “if we 
could solve the problem of diet it would amount to the rediscovery 
of Paradise.” As Jesus said, “I trow not.” But it would amount 
to a gigantic stride in that direction. Humanity must pass through 
the successive stages of evolution before anything like “Paradise” 
can be gained. Strong souls will, in each incarnation, take one 
stride toward “Paradise” (Paranirvana); weak souls will shrivel, 
wither, and be annihilated, or, will have to return to the obscurest 
beginning of the evolutionary chain.§ 
Pure, living food is essential to him that would make progress in 
“the path” of Life. Because, Nature can from such build a fit 
abode for the Soul, in which, untrammeled by filth, lust, and dis- 
ease, development, sure and rapid, may go on. 
That there is a difference between a body made from rotting flesh 
and lifeless vegetables, and a body made from living fruit, photo- 
graphy demonstrates: for the negative of a fruit-eater appears 
slightly punctured by the impurities thrown to the surface of the 
skin; whereas that of a flesh-eater appears full of large blotches. 
The skin of irrain and fruit-eater is thus seen to be comparatively 
free from impurities; and hence is easily cleansed, without the use 
of corrosives and filthy fats (soap), by fine sand and corn-meal. 
♦The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. XX, p. 608. 
§ Esoteric Buddhism, by A. P. Sinnett. 14 
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III. GAIN OF TEMPERANCE. 
“ ’Tie to thy rules, O Temperance! that we owe 
All pleasures that from health and strength can flow.” 
—Mary Chandler. 
Dr. Kane saw an Esquimaux drink from ten to twelve gallons of 
train-oil a day, and Dr. Moffat saw a Bushman eat twenty 
pounds of hippopotamus liver, a bucket-full of broiled marrow, hand- 
fuls of ground-nuts, parched corn, and berries, all within twenty- 
four hours. 
For, swinish gluttony 
Ne’er looks to heaven amidst her gorgeous feast, 
But with besotted, base ingratitude 
Crams, and blasphemes her feeder. 
—Milton. 
When taken by a fruit-eater, animal food, by reason of its want 
of life, causes a loss of will-power, and thus of self-control. It was 
with good reason that ambitious Caesar said, 
“Let me have men about me that are fat.” 
He might as well have said, “let me have weak-minded men 
about me; men that mav be ruled by me; men too lazy to 
think of freedom.” Somebody has said, “a redundance of adipose 
matter essentially weakens and impedes the power of will.”* There 
is something of veracity in this. Greasy Esquimaux and Bush- 
mans, and pot-bellied Falstaffs, do not furnish inspirers and sav- 
iors to the world. 
I know personally a Christ in the flesh; a Christ, I tell thee, be- 
cause he can duplicate every “miracle” of the Nazarene Christ, and 
do more too; a Christ because He has “overcome the world;” whose 
will is so strong, whose intellect is so great, that in comparison, the 
will and intellect of thy Huxleys, Mills, Spencers, and Darwins, are 
mere babes in swaddling-clothes; and He hath warned me against a 
redundant belly! 
Do not misunderstand. It is not stated that the thousands of 
scraggv, hysteric, dyspeptic hypochondriacs we meet with, have a 
strong human will; nor that every gross, adipose Falstaff is 
weak minded. For I make a distinction between the will of the 
animal soul (Nephesh, Psyche), and the will of the intellectual soul 
(Ruach, Logos). Bonaparte had a strong animal will, and conquered 
animals; Siddartha had a strong human will, and conquered self. 
The animal will is displayed in the conquest of the physical, the 
body; the human will, in the conquest of the spiritual, the self. 
As stated, inasmuch as flesh is dead substance it irritates, stimu- 
lates, and creates thirst and unnatural hunger. Equally so cooked 
vegetables, grains, and fruits. It is otherwise with uncooked food. 
Those of us that live on this can testify that we are as a rule thirst- 
less. It is nearly two months since I drank even a glass of water, 
and then, only because I tramped in a dusty road with a burden on 
♦The Popular Science Monthly. Yol. XVII, p. 61. THE EDENIC DIET 
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my back, and under a scorching sun, aud had only dried peached 
and raw wheat to eat. Had I had fresh fruit instead of the 
peaches even this water would not have been called for. While 
penning these lines the thermometer registers 80 deg. F. in my 
room, yet I am not thirsty. I have no use for the iced tea, lemon- 
ade, or laucy “drinks” with which my panting neighbors are swil 
ling themselves, to ‘‘keep cool.” 
So much for the effect of sun-cooked food in a semi-tropic clim- 
ate. 
I have month upon month risen a 4 A. M., in a room so 
cold that the water in the pitchers became, during the night, solid 
ice. And I have, for reasons that concern only myself, taken a 
long walk at that hour, with nothing but an apple on my stomach, 
when the thermometer registered all the way from 25 deg. F. to 
40 deg. below zero; and this on a diet consisting mostly of raw 
wheat, raw apples and Brazil nuts, and in so small quantities that I 
do not care to mention them. 
The celebrated Dr. Abernethy said that ‘‘one-fourth of all a man 
eats sustains him; the rest he retains at his peril.” Milton, his fan- 
tastic theology aside, has written some readable matter; some un- 
sermon-like matter with food for thought in it, among which this: 
In what thou eat'st and drinkest seek from thence 
Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight; 
8o thou may’st live till, like ripe fruit, thou drop 
Into thy mother’s lap, or be with ease 
Gather’d, not harshly plucked, for death mature. 
I am ashamed to say that there have been occasions when I had 
to participate in swinish feasts of from twelve to twenty-five courses, 
of each of which 1 had to nibble a little, for the hostess’ sake; not 
to speak of what Longfellow calls tfie 
“Poison of dragons, from the vineyards of Sodom,” 
which, in honor of the absent and present dieties, intersprinkled the 
deadness and the rottenness. That such feasts are followed by 
“biliousness” stands to reason. Pity there are not special lunatic 
asylums for “bilious” persons, because so many suffer from “bilious- 
ness,” a pathognomonic symptom of lunacy. 
Now compare the diet that maketh “biliousness” with the diet of 
millions of Hindoos that have for centuries obstained from flesh and 
wine; with that of Cyrus, who at fifteen, had tasted nothing but 
bread, cresses, and water; with that of the Italian patriot Silvio 
Pellico, who for seven years subsisted on rye-bread and water; 
with that of Fedor Daraspski, a Russian prisoner, liberated at 
ninety, who for sixty-eight years got nothing but black bread and 
water; with that of the heroic Circassian, Shamyl, who for years de- 
fied the Russians in his mountains, on a diet of roasted beech-nuts 
and water; with that of Gautama, the Buddha, who for seven years 
subsisted on roots and berries; with that of the Pythagoreans, of 
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celsus, of Spinoza, and of a host of others, that have lived, thought, 
and worked without flesh and wine, and without gluttony. 
Sanchoniathan, a Phoenician historian, Hesiod, the Greek poet, 
Herodotus, a celebrated ancieut historian, Hippocrates, the father 
of medicine, Diodorus Sicculus, the historian, Ovid, the poet, 
iEthianus, a Greek historian, and Pliny, the Roman naturalist, all 
testify that the most ancient inhabitants of the earth, of which they 
had anv knowledge subsisted on a vegetable diet alone. 
IY. GAIN OF STRENGTH. 
“A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.” 
—Proverbs XXIV: 5. 
Our country has produced some brave and thoughtful brains; hu- 
manized brains; brains that have risen above dollar and convention- 
ality; above the animal nature; brains, such as those of old Osawa- 
toinie Brown, Walt Whitman, Henry Thoreau, and some others. 
The brain of this Thoreau was, as a rule, a healthy womb that 
could conceive, bear, and give birth to fine children, of which this 
is one: 
“The country boor says he must have meat to make muscle; and all the 
while his vegetarian team is twitching him and his plow along the furrow. 
Where does he suppose they get their muscles?” 
Where does this, or any other, boor, suppose the gorilla, the most 
human-like ape, gets his enormous strength? And the elephant? 
Standing erect the gorilla is but five feet high, and yet is able to 
encounter at once six strong men, and to overcome them by his 
superior strength and agility. 
Jules Virey estimates that four-tenths of the human race subsist 
exclusively on a vegetable diet, and that seven-tenths are practically 
(though not on principle) vegetarians. Virchow estimates the 
total number at eighty-five per cent.* 
The strongest peasants T met with in Europe lived almost ex- 
clusively on a diet of rye-bread, peasoup, and vegetables. And 
the peasant-woman of the province of Dalarne, Sweden, a pattern 
of health, strength, and endurance, not to be outstripped by any 
average man elsewhere, subsists also on rye-bread, oat meal por- 
ridge, and pea-soup. 
The strongest men of the three manliest races of the 
present world are non-carnivorous; the Turanian mountaineers of 
Daghestan and Lesghia, the Mandingo tribes of Senagambia and the 
Schleswig-Holstein peasants, who furnish the heaviest cuirassiers 
for the Prussian army, and the ablest seamen for the Hamburg navy.§ 
I have met several strong American laborers that for years volun- 
tarily and from principle subsisted upon an exclusively sun-cooked 
vegetable diet. They were bright, strong and enduring, easily out- 
♦The Natural Cure, by (j. E. Page, M. D. Fowler and Wells. New York. 
§The Diet Question, by Susanna W. Dobbs, M D. Fowler and Wells, New York. THE EDENIO DIET. 
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doing1 their fiesh-eating fellows both in shop and in field. I know 
a farmer boy, five feet and seven inches tall, twenty-one years of 
age, who has for years lived on sun-cooked grain, vegetables and 
fruit. He weighs one hundred and eighty pounds, eats two meals 
a day, and is so brimful of life that I have often feared he might ex- 
plode and send me to the Summer Land of Spiritism. A terrible 
young fellow; a ‘‘roaring bull of Bashan.” 
There is more work done in the world on a sun-cooked vegetable 
diet than the thoughtless are aware of. Gracious! what din of 
tools! What a countless army of vegetarians. Here is a first div- 
ision: centipeds, millipeds, ticks, mites, and gnats, armed with au- 
gers, saws, hammers, and pumps, and ready for work on your plants 
and trees. Here is second: locusts, army-worms, and potato-bugs. 
Don’t you wish they were stock-raisers and butchers; educated, 
civilized, not incapable of appreciating parasitic oysters, measly 
pork, and pustulous beef? Here a third: moths, tree-worms, and 
book-worms; skilled engineers, miners and sappers that can make 
galleries in your clothes, books, and furniture. Don’t you wish 
they would turn their attention to sausage-machines? Here a 
fourth: leaf-eating grubs; silk-worms; gorging vegetarians, lazy 
rascals that rock themselves to sleep in silken hammocks. Here a 
fifth: honey-gathering bees, buzzing, snappish, sugar-refiners, able 
to impress sensible thoughts upon your pate, when they converse 
with you. A sixth: small birds, a gaudy, coquettish, heart-slaying, 
crack regiment. What epicureans! your berries and cherries, your 
peaches and plums! Dear me! And, a seventh, heavy division in 
the rear; a useful, gentle, good-natured company; with eyes that 
speak, or, as Schubert puts it, with eyes “out of which there often 
appears a passing ray of a deeper consciousness, which in the other 
life (in thy next incarnation) will be thy remembering witness from 
this life” (incarnation). Woe to thee for their heavy burdens, suf- 
ferings, and blood! 
Here is a comparative table of the approximate nutritive and 
watery elements of four of the most prominent eatables of the Ani- 
mal Kingdom and of thirty-two of the Vegetable, from which you 
may learn whence useful animals like the ox, horse, camel and 
elephant get their strength. The per cent of waste is not noted. 
FROM THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 
Articles. 
Nutri- 
ment. 
Water. 
Articles. 
Nutri- 
ment. 
Water. 
1 Milk 
14. 
86. 
3 Poultry 
26. 
74. 
2 Fish 
23: 
77. 
4 Beef (lean) 
28. 
72. 18 
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FROM THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 
Articles. 
Nutri- 
ment. 
W ater. 
Articles. 
Nutri- 
ment. 
Water. 
1 Peach 
3 
85 
17 Breadfruit 
20 
80 
2 Apricot 
3 
82 
18 Potato 
25 
75 
3 Plum 
4 
81 
19 Banana 
27 
73 
4 Cabbage 
5 
91 
20 Sw. Potato 
32 
68 
5 Blackberry 
6 
86 
21 Date 
33 
67 
6 Turnip 
9 
91 
22 Lentil 
77 
14 
7 Currant 
9 
85 
23 Arrowroot 
82 
18 
8 Strawberry 
9 
87 
24 Barley 
83 
14 
9 Gooseberry 
10 
85 
25 Bean 
85 
14 
10 Mulberry 
12 
84 
26 Corn 
85 
10 
11 Pear 
12 
85 
27 Oats 
85 
15 
12 Cherry 
13 
80 
28 Peas 
85 
14 
13 Apple 
15 
82 
29 Rye 
85 
13 
14 Carrot 
17 
83 
30 Wheat 
85 
14 
15 Grape 
17 
79 
31 Rice 
87 
9 
16 Parsnip 
18 
82 
32 Sugar. 
95 
5 
Let no one say that the articles of the Vegetable kingdom which 
in nutritive value stand below those of the Animal are inferior to 
them; for the vitality of the former, not taken note of, elevates them 
beyond measure above the nutriment and unvitality of the latter. 
IY. GAIN OP FREEDOM. 
A day, an hoar of virtuous liberty 
Is worth a whole eternity of bondage. 
—Addison. 
The flesh-eater is a slave. The true vegetarian a lord. I have 
travelled by land and by sea; walked hundreds of miles with but 
raw wheat, dried peaches, raisins, and apples to eat, and have more 
than once pitied and laughed at the woe-begone faces of my fellow- 
travellers when meal-time came, and hot flesh and hot drinks were 
not to be had; ‘only cold fare:’ ‘only’ bread, butter, ham, mutton, 
turkey, corn-beef, pickles, eggs, cheese, beer, and whiskey; and 
‘cold’ too! Poor men, poor women! 
1 love freedom; freedom from Lust, Hate, Anger and Desire; the 
passions that torment men. I love Purity. To have to eat food, 
especially bread, into which dirty, diseased cooks have put their 
visible and invisible dirtiness and disease, is that freedom? I have, 
in hospitals and in private practice, treated cooks with ‘base, con- 
taminated, and mis-begotten blood.’ Fie! 
“O! O! ’t is foul.”—Shakespeare. 
I love clean, sun-cooked food, a healthy body, a pure mind, and 
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LOSSES THROUGH SUN-COOKED FOOD. 
For still the world prevails, and its dread laugh. 
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn. 
—Thomson. 
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, 
But in battalions! 
—Shakespeare. 
But, friends, T warn you: Although it is desirable to have a body 
that may, as the mystic said, be a fit Temple for the Holy Ghost, 
the Higher Self, it is not without its disadvantages and losses; for 
(1) You loose unhealthy and unnecessary tat; your friends begin to 
lament your thinness; you become unfit for the shambles. (2) Your 
nerves of smell become acute,* and you begin to dislike the foul 
air of the citv, the admixture of unspecifiable foulness; you begin 
to long for pure air, for the air of the country, the forest, the moun- 
tain, and you are in imminent danger of falling into the habits and 
ways of the Jewish prophets, of Jesus and his Essenian brethren, of 
the Oriental saints and Christs of to-day; you acquire a tendency to 
gravitate toward a savage life, to desert “enlightenment,” “civiliza- 
tion,” and the comforts of life. (3) You lose all desire for distin- 
guishing yourself on the battle-field, in the prize-ring, and at the 
horse race; you become disinclined to stab, to shoot, to mutilate 
the fathers, husbands, brothers, and sous of women you have never 
seen nor heard of; you begin to feel inclined to let the brutish poli- 
ticians commit their own robberies and murders, and in the eyes of 
all female fools and male bullies you become a coward. (4) The 
temperature of your blood becomes normal, your hands hitherto 
hot and clammy become cool and clean; you do not constantly re- 
quire drinks; and saloons, breweries and distilleries become nui- 
sances to you; you begin to dislike tobacco; and the “noble,” 
“Christian” government “God” has placed over you begins to suffer 
from the want of revenue; you become “unpatriotic.” (5) Your 
carnality abates; you can look at a woman, and at a man too, with- 
out “committing adultery” in your heart. You become disinclined 
to fill our over-crowded cities with beings whose future, bare exis- 
tance will necessitate fierce, inhuman struggle, disease and crime; 
sickly, demonish-looking beings; future tramps, prostitutes, liber- 
tines, usurers, politicians, libellers, stock-gamblers, wife beaters, 
abortionists and m(*iopolists; you become a disloyal citizen; although 
To give birth to those 
Who can but suffer many years, and die, 
Methinks is merely propagating death 
And multiplying murder. —Byron. 
(6) If you are scrofulous, consumptive, constipated, rheumatic, 
gouty and dyspeptic; if you are afflicted with Bright’s disease and 
a tendency to epilepsy and insanity; if you are always catching 
“cold” and “malaria;” if your body is full of boils, sores and festers; if 
your skin is blotchy and pimpled, an imitation alligator-hide, you 
may like Chateaubriand, Dr. Tanner, Mr. Griscomb, Terence Con- 
•Note: Lest the sense of smell in hunting-dogs be impaired they are not fed with 
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nolly, and Joseph Vickers, and many others,* by pure air, exer- 
cise, bathing, fasting, and sun-cooked food, cure yourself and—be- 
come an object of contempt in the eyes of every‘Tegular'’ quack and 
patent-medicine vender in your neighborhood. (8) King Solomon 
founded Zion upon three-hundred concubines; Mahomet founded 
the religion of Allah upon blood and black-eyed houris in Paradise. 
Torquemada kept the faith of the Holy Mother Church undefiled 
by racking, flaying and burning men, women and children; Henry 
VIII established the Church of England upon a divorced wife, and 
two or three decapitated concubines; the Puritans of New England 
founded political and religious “freedom” upon whipped, racked and 
hanged, hysteric girls and women—quakers and witches. The slave- 
owners of the South established slavery upon the Bible and the 
Church; Brigham Young founded a new Zion upon one wife and 
eighteen concubines; some of our charitable millionaires found 
Universities upon stolen money; our Missionaries, accompanied by 
rum-sellers and impure sailors, travel from land to land, and spread 
the “Gospel” among the heathen; our Temperance women keep our 
young men from bad places, places that dispense tobacco, beer, and 
whiskey, by giving them tea, coffee * and swine-flesh; our politicians 
reform our Government by distributing whiskey among voters and 
money among newspapers; and our Reform-women elevate their 
own sex by keeping their kitchen drudges at work from 5 a. m. to 
8 p. m., year out and year in. Now, what will you do for your fel- 
low-men? 
First, you will remain silent; second, you will look into your own 
mind and body to learn their contents; third, you will remove their 
contents: lust, arross appetite, and foul flesh, and substitute lovet 
temperance, and fresh fruit; and fourth, you will give every beas, 
under heaven the liberty to enjoy that which is dearest to yourself— 
life! You will not, unless God in Person commands you (but, 
even then you will hesitate lest you mistake the Devil for God) des- 
troy either gnat or elephant; in one word, before you attempt your 
neighbor’s reformation you will reform yourself, and dear, over- 
burdened Mother Earth will carry one fool or one impostor less! 
HOW TO CHANGE DIET* 
“0 my strength, haste thee to help me.”—Ps. XXII, 19. 
Suppose you want to change diet. You eat flesh three times « 
day. Then, the first week you eat flesh twice a day; the second, 
once a day; the third, only milk, butter and cheese; the fourth, you 
drop the cheese; the fifth, the milk; the sixth, the butter; the 
seventh you go a meal or two without food and eat only bread, 
vegetables and fruit that have not been prepared with milk, but- 
♦The Natural Cure, by C. E. Page. 
* The road to the rum-sellar leads through the coffee-house. Physical Education, by F 
L. Oswald, M. D. Appleton & Co., New York. Why not also through the meat shop? THE EDENIC DIET. 
21 
ter, eggs and flesh (it rnay surprise you to learn that contrary to 
the opinion of some “vegetarians.” I do not believe milk, butter 
cheese, and ovsters to be products of the Vegetable kingdom, nor 
that vegetables prepared with them or with animal fats and juices 
should be classed under dietary); the eight, you fast a day 
and then break the fast with a slice of Graham bread and an apple; 
you chew this food thoroughly; insalivate it, not alligator-wise swal- 
low it whole or half-chewed, lest it ferment and produce flatulence . 
If your teeth be poor, or if you have artificial teeth, grate the apple. 
You are now on the borderland of life and purity, death and im- 
purity are behind you. After a while you drop the bread and eat, 
the whole wheat, or “grainia,” with vegetables and fruits. Let 
wheat and apples be vour “staff of lile”. Go at it slowly, quietly and 
determinedly. Haste, noise and vacillation will defeat you; be- 
sides, they are vulgar. 
Bear constantly in mind that the Edenic life means more than 
mere abstinence from cruelty and foul flesh; that it means chastity, 
temperance, peace, unselfishness and aspiration inward, a life in 
the Human Soul. 
Should you fail, blame yourself; your lust and feeble will. Men 
fail, sicken and die from feebleness of will.* The question before 
you is this: Shall I be lord or slave; if my prurient flesh, ticklish 
palate and perverted stomach get upperhand, shall I not be like a 
rich man that imagines he controls his money when in reality it is 
the money that controls him, even to damnable soul-atrophy? 
I know a man that lived for nearly a year on the Edenic diet, the 
sun-cooked diet, but because he failed ingloriously to live the 
Edenic life, the Sun-child’s life, he wilted and returned to death 
and to rottenness—to die and to rot! 
Do notask me what you should eat. If you are a suckling about 
to be weaned you will take to crushed fruit and grain like a duck- 
ling to water. But if you are an “old sinner” I cannot tell, be- 
cause dishes that are good for me may not be good for you. Try 
the various dishes prepared by Mother Nature and find out for 
yourself. If you observe temperance will you soon learn that lem- 
ons and water-melons were not intended as an exclusive diet in the 
polar regions, nor Brazil-nuts and olive-oil in the tropic; and that 
beans and peas were not intended as an exclusive diet for him 
that sits all day at a writing desk, nor cucumbers and water-melons 
for him that walks all day behind the plow. 
Again, do not ask me how often, or how much, you should eat 
but consult your needs. When engaged in intense mental labor I 
eat three times a day, but very little for supper. When on a long 
march, twice a day, and at other times, once a day. A spoonful 
of wheat and an apple or two, suffices when 1 am comparatively 
inactive. 
♦The Temple of the Rosy Cross, by F. B. Dowd. Hempstead. Texas. 22 
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Friend, pass on! experience will teach thee. Our object is 
health, purity, freedom; a life in the Human Soul. We have ar- 
rived at a link in the evolutionary chain which turns upward. We 
have hitherto been on a level with the beasts 
We have learned to eat and to drink that we might be plagued 
with “biliousness” and “malaria;” we have learned to do business 
with “common sense” and within legal bounds that we might over 
reach one another; we have learned politeness and good manners 
that like Talleyrand we might with the help of an inscrutable face 
lie successfully; we have learned to “sanctify” marriage that we might 
behind a show of holiness live in unbridled lust; and we have learn- 
ed to sing hymns of thanksgiving to a God that is always on the 
side of the heaviest artillery; we have been lazy sloths, sly foxes, 
lewd goats and cruel tigers. 
But we are tired of this madness; of this insatiate, furious rush 
after unnecessary and unholy food, gold, rosy flesh and dominion; of 
this soul-starvation. We are tired of a life in the mere Animal 
Soul; we have begun to sigh for a life in the Human Soul/ yea; in 
spite of the bitter, stormy antagonism of our appetites, passions 
and friends, we have actually started in search of this soul. 
Friend, be not detained by Reformers, Servants of God and Rulers 
by the grace of God. Do not loiter in Sanitary Institutions, Halls 
of Justice, and Houses of God; they are not for thee. Pass on! 
Make thyself a new body of pure Sun-cooked food, pure water 
and pure air. 
Weaken thy Animal Soul by non-gratification of its desires; and 
by passionless contemplation of the illusive and ever-changing 
tnings about you. 
Enter into thy closet [within thy physical senses], and when thou 
hast shut the door, pray to thy Father [thy divine soul] which is in 
secret [above thy Human Soul, in thy inmost;] and thy Father 
which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 
For, with Abipile, an Arabian alchemist, l admonish thee, if that 
thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou will never find it 
without thee. 
In conclusion: the sun-cooked food is the true and only basis of 
economv, vitality, temperance, health, purity, mercy, chastity, peace, 
elevation of mind, soul-growth, and a blessed immortality. 
What more good do you need? What more good could I wish 
you? 
Affectionately Your 
Frere dt Lait. 
Oakland, California, August 27, 1885. TUE EDENIC DIET. 
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Eminent Men And The Vegetable Diet. 
We, by destroying life, our life sustain, 
And gorge the ungodly maw with meats obscene. 
Not so the Golden Age, who fed on fruit, 
Nor durst with bloody meats their mouths pollute. 
—Ovid. 
Man’s organization, when compared with that of other animals, 
shows that fruits and esculent vegetables constitute his most suit- 
able food.—Linneus. 
The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to 
consist of fruits, roots, and esculent parts of vegetables.—Cuvier. 
While mankind remained in a state of innocence there is every 
reason to believe that their only food was the produce of the veget- 
able kingdom.—Sir Everard Home. 
It is not, I think, going too far to say that every fact connected 
with human organization goes to prove that man was formed a fru- 
givorous animal.—Thomas Bell. 
A well selected vegetable diet is capable of producing the high- 
est physical development.—Dr. Carpenter. 
The well-fed vegetable-eater will show, when in training, no 
inferiority to the meat-eater.--Dr. Parkes. 
Every element, whether mineral or organic, which is required 
for nutrition is found in the vegetable kingdom.—Dr. Edward 
Smith. 
The vegetable eater, pure and simple, can extract from his food 
all the principles necessary for the growth and support of the body 
as well as for the production of heat and force, provided he selects 
vegetables that contain all the essential elements.—Sir Henry 
Thompson. THE EDENIC DIET. 
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RECIPES. 
GKAINS. 
Bv Grainia is meant any cereal cut in a steel mill so that all parts 
are uniform in size. The difference between grainia and Graham 
flour is this: the latter is fine flour mixed with coarse bran, or it is, 
too often, a mixture of coarse bran and poor, spoilt flour; the for- 
mer is cut grain. Grainia may be made in an ordinary coffee-mill 
so set that it does not crush the grain, but cut it. 
Wheat-grainia may be cut and kept for any length of time, 
but not oat-grainia. The latter spoils in a few hours, and should 
not be prepared in large quantities. Buy whole or coarse steel-cut 
oats, cut it just before it is wanted. Oat-grainia is generally pre- 
ferred with vegetables, and wheat-grainia with fruit, especially acid 
fruit. Be sure that the grain used is clean aud sweet, not sour and 
musty. It is well to wash the wheat and cut it a*- once when needed. 
BARLEY 
Is not much used except for the making of malt liquors, and for 
horses ana cattle; but, like any other cereal, it may be cut into 
grainia. It is, however, far from being an inferior grain either in 
chemical constituents or physiological properties. 
BUCKWHEAT. 
This is not a first-class cereal; still, it may be used as grainia. 
EGYPTIAN CORN. 
This makes good grainia. 
FLAXSEED. 
This is very strong and oily. It may be ground and mixed with 
other grain. It is an article that is not called for except in a very 
cold climate. 
MILLET. 
Ground, it may be used as grainia. 
RICE. 
In nutritive properties it does not differ materially from wheat, 
although it is much less adapted to prolonged nutrition as an exclus- 
ive article of diet, because of its small proportion of lignin or bran. 
It may be ground and used as grainia. 
RYE. 
Mates excellent grainia, and is very nourishing. It is used con- 
siderably as food among the inhabitants of northern Europe, 
pecially among the Swedes and Germans. x THE EDENIC DIET. 
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SAGO. 
Like rice and tapioca it may be ground into flour or cut into 
grainia. It may also be softened in water and mixed with other 
articles of food. It is the pith of the stems of various species of 
palms, and is manufactured principally in the Moluccas. 
tapioca 
May be used as rice and sago. It is obtained in the Brazils from 
the roots of a plant, said to be poisonous. 
WHEAT. 
Is the king of the grains. Its proximate constituents are starch 
albumen, fibrin, gluten, mucin, sugar, gum, oil, lignin, earthy phos- 
phates and water. The nutritive elements of wheat are very rich 
and abundant, and since it may be eaten unground and uncooked, by 
those that have sound teeth, we may well say that “every kernel is 
a loaf”. It may be Droper to state that superfine flour is distinctly 
a modern invention. The Ancients used unbolted meal altogether, 
the present disease-producing devices known as bolting-machines 
being then not in use. The bran is an important part of the grain, 
and should not be separated from it. When separated there is a 
loss of nearly fourteen per cent, of gluten which adheres to it. The 
phosphates and nitrates lost in the refining-process are chiefly re- 
quired for making nerves, mucles, bones and brains. Bran pro- 
motes, also the action of the stomach and the intestines, by which 
means digestion, and the normal evacuation of the bowels are pro- 
moted. Fine flour contains about three elements, the whole grain, 
fifteen. 
The following table shows the relative values of white flour and 
of the whole wheat, or of grainia: 
In 1000 lbs. 
Whole Wheat or Grainia. 
Fine Four. 
Muscular matter. 
..156 lbs. 
130 lbs. 
Bones and saline 
matter. . 
170 “ 
60 “ 
Fatty matter.. . . 
28 “ 
20 “ 
Total in 
each 
354 lbs. 
210 lbs. 
FRUITS. 
DRIED FRUIT. 
Much of the dried fruit in the market was picked and dried when 
unripe, and is therefore tough and more or less tasteless. Dried, 
ripe fruit needs but a little pounding with a hammer, or soaking 
for a few hours to make it tender and tasty. It is not generally 
known that melons, like the musk and cantalope, may be dried and 
used like any other dried fruit. Raisins are rich in nutriment, and 
should be {founded so the seed may be crushed; thev mav then be 
eaten with grainia. Sun-dried fruit should always be preferred to 
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APPLE. 
As wheat is the chief of grains, so is apple the chief of fruits; it 
exists in over twelve hundred varieties, and is adapted to nearly 
all climates; it is easily kept and is the most nutritious of fruits, being 
the richest of all in sugar and albumen; and it is easily digested. 
Its elements are: sugar, malic acid, tannic acid, albumen, gluten, 
pectin, fibrin, starch, traces of free salts, and water. The sweet, 
subacid, and mealy kinds are the most nutritious. The part nearest 
the skin has a finer taste and odor than the part at the core. The 
apple may be eaten whole, or sliced; or grated, when it is improved 
by the addition of nutmeg, or other spices, and grainia. 
APRICOTS 
May be used with or without grainia. 
BANANAS 
Contain much nutriment and are easily digested. 
CHERRY. 
This is rich in sugar, and mav be crushed and mixed with grainia. 
DATES. 
These are sweeter than figs, and may be used with other food in- 
stead of honey. 
FIGS. 
Wiien fresh they may be eaten like any other fruit; when dried, 
with or without grania and Edenic cream. They may be made ten- 
der by pounding. 
LEMON. 
Lemons and limes are in great demand on the edenic table. They 
take the place of vinegar and do not like this contain mineral acids 
and oil of vitriol, nor infusoria and eels. Their acid 
does not decrease the secretion of the gastric juice nor cause dys- 
pepsia with its attendant cadaverous face. 
MUSK MELON. 
This may be eaten with or without honey or salt, or it may be cut 
into small pieces and mixed with grainia. The variety called Nut- 
meg is the richest. 
NECTARINES 
May be eaten with or without grainia 
ORANGES 
Sliced and flavored with a little honey make a delicious dessert. 
PEACHES 
Pared, freed from the stone, crushed, and mixed with grainia 
are very palatable. 
PEARS 
May be pared, crushed, and mixed with grainia. 
PERSIMMON. • 
After the frost has sweetened them, they may be eaten with or 
without grainia. THE EDENIC DIET. 
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0UINCES 
May be grated and mixed with '‘grainia,” They need a little 
sweetening with honey. 
PINE APPLE 
May be eaten with or without honey and “grainia.” 
PLUMS 
Of all kinds, especially ripe, Green Gages, are very good with 
“grainia.” 
PRUNES 
Are very tender, if allowed to ripen before they are cured, and 
may be made still more tender by soaking in fresh water for a 
few hours. . 
TAMARINDS 
Are useful when the- system requires acid. 
WATER-MELON. 
By itself a luscious article of diet, unobjectionable to those 
whose digestive powers have not been greatly impaired by “riotous 
living.” 
NUTS. 
When the system needs oil, as in a very cold climate, it is far 
better to resort to nuts than to the various oils sold in the market. 
Nuts do not “agree” with perverted, diseased stomachs, but they 
do agree with unperverted, undiseased. The chestnut is almost 
free from oil, is very nutritive and will “agree” with any stomach. 
The butternut, walnut, Brazil-nut, hickorynut, and pecan contain 
much oil; the almond cocoa-nut, filbert, peanut, and beechnut less. 
Bitter almonds, used extensively by cooks and confectioners, con- 
tain a volatile oil that is a more potent poison than Prussic acid. 
Nuts may be eaten whole, or grated and mixed with other foods. 
When grated they may also be used for the ornamentation of vari- 
ous dishes. 
BERRIES. 
It is not necessary to enumerate all the edible berries. But we 
have the blackberry, currant, elderberry gooseberry, huckleberry, 
mulberry, raspberry aud strawberry from which to select. They 
may be eaten without or with a flavoring of honey, or “edenic” 
cream, or simply crushed and mixed with oat or wheat “grainia,” 
VEGETABLES. 
ARTICHOKES. 
The Jerusalem artichoke, the root of which is used, is somewhat 
like potato, but crisper and of better flavor. It may be eaten as an 
apple, or grated or sliced, as salad. The French variety, of which 
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THE EDENIC DIET. 
ASPARAGUS. 
The young shoots may be chopped, seasoned with mustard, 
lemon juice, pepper, salt, and oil, and mixed with “grainia.” 
BEANS. 
When fresh, they may be crushed, mixed with “grainia,” season- 
ed, and eaten. When dried, they may be ground and used as 
“grainia.” It should, however, be borne in mind that like peas and 
lentils, they are very concentrated food; excellent for active per- 
sons whose stomachs are strong, but injurious to persons of seden- 
tary habits, especially if their stomachs are weak. The English 
horse-bean, in its green state, is especially worthy of attention. 
BEETS. 
Because of their color, may be used for ornamentation; grated 
and mixed with “grainia,” and seasoned with salt and lemon juice 
they become palatable. 
BROCCOLI. 
May be used for salad. 
BRUSSELS SPOUTS. 
A tender vegetable, which may be prepared as cabbage and 
eaten with “grainia.” 
CABBAGE. 
Wheat, oats, apples, turnips and cabbage are articles that may 
be procured any season of the year. Besides, they are cheap aud 
easily Kept, and may, therefore, be considered the most important 
ingredient of the “edenic” diet, especially for the poor. Some 
varieties of cabbage are more tender than other, and should on this 
account be selected for the table. It may be prepared in a variety 
of ways; but, finely chopped, seasoned with salt, lemon or lime 
juice, a little sweet oil, and sprinkled with oat or wheat “grainia,” 
it is, to the unperverted appetite and the healthy stomach, a very 
good dish. 
CARROT. 
The small, French variety, grated and seasoned, forms a good 
relish. 
CAULIFLOWER. 
Belongs to the cabbage lamily and may be used as this. 
COjtN. 
The yellow, field variety may be eaten green; but dried and 
ground it is not so palatable. The white, sweet variety is very 
good when fresh and cut from the ear, seasoned, and eaten with 
wheat “grainia,” or fruit. The Egyptian variety when gronnd, is‘ 
palatable to some. A vegetable grater may be used when the corn, 
by reason ot age, is too hard to be scraped off with a knife. 
CRESS. 
May be eaten with a seasoning of mustard, oil, salt, and lime 
juice. THE EDENIC DIET. 
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CUCUMBERS. 
Pare, cut in thin slices, season with salt and pepper, and press 
between two plates for two or three hours, when they are ready for 
the table. Or, pare and grate them, and season with salt, and mix 
with “grainia.” 
DANDELION TOPS. 
These may be prepared in the same way that Asparagus is. 
LETTUCE. 
Wash the leaves, pick out the large stems, press out the water 
gently, season with a little salt, a little olive or cotton-seed oil, and 
lemon juice, and mix the whole without bruising or packing the 
leaves. As commonly prepared there is too much vinegar used. 
There should be no more of either oil or lemon juice than what 
adheres to the leaves. 
MUSTARD. 
The young shoots are used like any other greens. The seed 
may be ground and seasoned, and used to flavor various dishes. 
ONION. 
May be used i 1 several ways; sliced and seasoned with lemon- 
juice, salt, and pepper; or finely chopped and mixed with “grainia;” 
or, when young, eaten whole with salt. 
OYSTER PLANT OR SALSIFY. 
Grated, and seusoned with lime-juice, oil, and salt, and rnixep 
with “grainia,” is good for a change. 
PARSLEY. 
This is generally used for garnishing; but it may be cut line, 
seasoned with salt and olive oil and mixed with “grainia.” 
PARSNIPS. 
May be prepared like carrots; or like these, they may be eaten 
whole by those that have sound teeth. 
PEAS. 
There are many varieties of these. They should be used while 
green and tender. Crushed, mixed with “grainia,” and seasoned 
they are good and nourishing. Dried and ground they may be 
eaten like “grainia,” with vegetables and fruits, especially by those 
that are engaged in hard, out door labor, 
POTATOES. 
Although seldom used on the “Edenic” table are relished by 
some, especially if grated and eaten with onion, salt, and spices. 
The same is true of the sweet potato. The latter may be dried and 
ground into “grainia,” which will be found very palatable, and al- 
most as sweet,as the ordinary brown sugar. 
PUMPKIN 
Grated and seasoned with pepper and salt, may be used as a 
change in diet, or when fruit and other vegetables are scarce. The 30 
Chinese and the Egyptions eat the seeds in the same way that nuts 
are eaten in other countries. They are very nutritious. 
RADISHES. 
These are more of a relish than a food. Still, taere are various ways 
in which ihey may be used on the “edenic” tattle. 
RHUBARB. 
The juice may be pressed out of it, and used for flavoring other arti- 
cles of diet. 
TURNIP. 
Mny be gr.ited and mixed with “grainia” and seasoned with salt, 
pepper, er other spices. 
sorrel • 
May be chopped fine, seasoned, and mixed with “grainia.’’ It may 
also be used with Lettuce. 
spinach. 
May be chipped, seasoned, and mixed with “grainia.” 
TOMATOES. 
An excellent vegetable, which may be prepared in a variety of ways; 
crushed anti seasoned and mixed with “grainia;” or, sliced and season- 
ed wiihout it; or simply washed and eaten whole. Ripe tomatoes are 
sometimes cut into slices without peeling, and dried in an oven or in 
the sun. They may be eaten dry or soaked in fresh water. Fresh 
tomatoes sliced, and sweetened with honey, is au excellent dish. 
There sire those that imagine that the tomato causes cancer, what 
causes cancer in countries in which the tomato js not known? With 
us it is a standard vegetable. 
POT HERBS. 
These may be used for seasoning or for ornamentation. We have the 
Sweet Busily, Sweet Fennel. Sweet Marjoram, Spear, Mint, Sago, 
Summer Savory, Broad leaved Thyme, and many other. 
CANE SUGAR. 
The juice of the cane is very vich and fattening; but since it can be 
procured only in the Southern States we have had no experience with 
it. The ordinary sugar sold is not to our taste. It is dead, adulterated 
with glucose, plaster of Paris, sand, clay, bone-dust, chloiide of tin, and 
other substances; besides, it contains a parasitic insect closely resemb- 
ling the itch-uite, known as the acarus sacchari. Syrups are still 
more adulterated and are therefore even less desirable than sugar As 
to candy there is but this to say, if you wish to commit slow suicide 
eat it. 
HONEY 
Unlike milk, honey is not an animal secretion, but a vegetable se- 
cretion gathered and stored by the bees. It is to be preferred to sugar, 
because artificial heat has not made it lifeless. Some object to the use 
of honey because “it is a stolen article.” but bee-culture is not now, 
what it was years ago, associated with “slaughter and robbery.” The 
intelligent bee-keeper of to-day takes good care not to kill a single bee, 
and not to leave the bees without food fora “rainy day.” Comb 
honey should not be used in large quantities, because “it causes an un- 
natural acidity of the stomach and flllsjthe system with cethereal oil 
and wax which can in no normal way be appropriated” “Bread Fruit” 
(X p. 131). Still, in moderate quantities it does well; especially when 
used for seasoning. Haifa pound of wheat “grainia” mixed with a 
quarter of a pound of extracted honey, coutains nourishment sufficient 
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for twenty-four hours. Orauges, and some other fruits, sliced and 
sweetened with a little honey, makes a very palatable dessert. Much 
of the honey in the market is adulterated with glucose. There is also 
artificial honey, made of cane-sugar and various flavoring extracts. 
‘‘Candied’’ honey is pure. 
oils. 
Olive oil, cotton-seed oil, lin-seed oil, peanut oil, and cocoa nut oil, 
are very desirable articles especially in o cold climate. They may be 
used with salads and many other articles of food; but in moderate 
quantities. 
spices 
He that lives on the “edenic” diet will have but little use for spices. 
Still there may be occasions when they may be needed. We would 
advise experiments with all kinds of spices whej cakes are made. It 
is proper to call your attention to the fact that a large per cent of the 
spices sold is heavily adulterated. This is especially the case with 
ground spices. Cayenne pepper for instance, is adulterated with 
ground rice and colored witii red lead and vermilion, or bi-sulphur ret 
of mercury, very poisonous substances. 
SALT. 
Many vegetarians condemn the use of salt on the ground that it 
only “tickles the palate.” They say that all the salt the body needs is 
found in the vegetables, fruits, and grains we eat, and that although 
the body needs phospherus, lime, and soda we do not think of taking 
these separately. This is true of raw vegetables, fruits, and grains, 
but not of cooked, because these have in the cooking process parted 
with much of their salts, lienee, to become ticklers of the palate they 
need the addition of salt in large quantities, ami not only salt, but also 
spices. Some physiologists say that the blood will take up so much 
salt and no more however much we may take with our food; and on 
the other hand, that if none be given, the blood, parts with its notural 
quantity slowly and unwillingly. Prof. Schlickeysen says, “salt seems 
in no way to build up the body, and those that dispense with it al- 
together soon experience an improvement in the sense of taste which 
adds greatly to the enjoyment of food.” We would say abstain from 
it whenever you can, and when you need it, observe temperance. 
MISCELLANEOUS DISHES. 
CORN SOUP. 
Grate two ears of fresh corn, add one tablespoouful of fine oat- 
“grainia,” and one pint of pure water, season with salt and spices. 
FROZEN GRAINIA. 
Mix fine wheat flour and water to the consistency of cream, add 
strawberries and vanilla, and sweeten, and freeze as iced-creatn. 
GINGER CAKE. 
Take one cupful of wheat “grainia;’’ one of fine flour; one teaspoon- 
ful of ginger; honey enough to make a stiff dough; roll it out and eat 
fresh or dry. 
GRAINIA CAKE. 
Pound, or grind, one cupful of raisins, and one of dried apples or 
peaches; mix these with “grainia,” and knead until a stiff dough is 
formed; cut in slices, or make small cakes. These improve wish age. 
IMITATION CYSTERS. 
Tomatoes added to a salad made of chopped cabbage, celery, and oat 
or wheat meal, to give it the desired consistency, gives it the flavor of 
oysters. Lemon juice and oil may be added. 32 
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NUT CAKE. 
An equal measure of nuts (of the kind preferred), wheat “grainia,’’ 
and dried apples, peaches, figs, or raisins, well crushed, or chopped, 
and well mixed, with lemon or orange juice, pressed for a few weeks, 
will make a palatable cake that will keep a long time. This, and all 
other cakes, may be ornamented with grated cocoanut, or almond nuts. 
OAT MILK. 
Stir one or two teaspoonfuls of oat “grainia” or oat meal into a 
tumbler of water, season with salt, or honey, and let it stand a few 
minutes when it is ready for use. 
SALAD, NO. 1 
Take one pint of finely chopped cabbage (the tender, Spring variety) 
add some chopped ceftery, one tablespoouful of olive or cotton-seed oil, 
a little salt, and the juice of one lemon; mix well, and add one pint of 
finely ground oat-graiuia, and mix the whole thoroughly. 
salad, no. 2. 
Ingredients as in “No, 1;” but instead of celery, use onion, and omit 
the oil, 
EDENIC CREAM. 
Stir fine wheat flour in water to the consistency of thick cream, and 
add a little honey and vanillas or salt. It may be used with berries 
ard some fruits. 
APPLE PUDDING. 
Grate three apples; add one tablespoouful of honey and three of flour. 
Mix well and spread it about an inch thick on a plate, grate a little 
nutmeg over it, and cover the whole with oat “grainia.” 
TOMATO SALAD. 
Take three good sized tomatoes, peel and slice thin; two ripo mellow 
apples, peel.and slice- very thin; add four tablespoonfuls of olive oil, 
the juice of a small lime, and salt to taste, and stir well. 
POTATO SALAD. 
Take one large potato, peel and slice very thin like shavings; four 
stalks of celery and one mellow apple, slice very thin, add the juice of 
a small lime four tablespoonfuls of olive oil, and salt to taste, and stir 
well. 
CABBAGE SALAD. 
Take half of a young, tender cabbage, $have very thin, and two not 
over-ripe tomatoes, peel and chop; add half a teaspoonful of olive oil, 
the juice of a small lime, salt to taste, and stir well. ERRATA 
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