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The Ethics of Diet

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Howard Williams gathers, in 1883, passages from fifty writers who argued against eating meat, giving each chapter to one author in roughly historical order. The list runs from Hesiod, Pythagoras and Plato through Plutarch, Montaigne, Voltaire and Rousseau to Shelley, Michelet and Schopenhauer. An appendix adds further extracts, among them selections from the Buddhist canon and from Bentham and Byron. The subtitle calls it a catena of authorities, and the preface argues that a more refined age will look back on meat-eating with the horror now felt toward human sacrifice.

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Howard Williams (1837-1931) was an English writer and historian, born at Whatley in Somerset and educated in history at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. in 1860 and his M.A. in 1863.

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