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Quotes from Why I Am a Vegetarian: An Address Delivered before the Chicago Vegetarian Society — J. Howard Moore

1862–1916 United States

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We are striving for the amelioration of this suffering world. Let us be economical.

Why I Am a Vegetarian: An Address Delivered before the Chicago Vegetarian Society (1895)

The human race is like a snake—it sheds. Ever and anon, as the ages bloom, old forms of thought are superseded by intellectual bran-news. Shrines at which one generation adores become to the succeeding desolate and despised.

Why I Am a Vegetarian: An Address Delivered before the Chicago Vegetarian Society (1895)

I became a vegetarian by my own reflection. I did not know at the time of the vegetarian movement, and hence, supposed myself among republics of carnivora. It did not seem to me graceful or ideal that I, an ethical being should maintain my existence at the incessant expense of misery and death to others.

Why I Am a Vegetarian: An Address Delivered before the Chicago Vegetarian Society (1895)

I am a vegetarian because I believe that present-day ethics is founded on that puerile, pre-Darwinian delusion that all other kinds of creatures and all worlds were created explicitly for the hominine species. Vegetarianism is the ethical corollary of evolution. It is simply the expansion of ethics to suit the biological revelations of Charles Darwin. Evolution has taught us the kinship of all creatures.

Why I Am a Vegetarian: An Address Delivered before the Chicago Vegetarian Society (1895)

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