Library of Universal Knowledge, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Vegetable tissue, the term employed in botany to denote the whole substance of which plants consist; regarded according to its structure, rather than to functions or chemical composition. See cellular tissue and vascular tissue.

Vegeta'rianism, the doctrine that, vegetable substances are the solids intended by nature for the sustenance of man. And that it is wrong - against nature and against good morals - for men to make use of an animal diet. There have never been wanting among speculative persons some who maintained that fruits and vegetables are the proper food for men; and illustrious name's, such as those of Pythagoras, Plato, Plutarch, in ancient times - of Rousseau, Shelley, Swedenborg, in modern can be counted among the upholders of this doctrine. A society for promoting the practice of vegetarianism was established at Manchester in 1847; and three years later, a similar society was established in the United States. Besides a short-lived publication called the Vegetarian Advocate, the vegetarians in Great Britain have been represented by the Vegetarian Messenger (monthly), from 1849 to 1859; for one year by. The Journal of Health; from 1861 to 1871 by the Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger (quarterly): and since 1871 by the Dietetic Reformer (monthly). The vegetarian creed has attracted very few disciples in England; and by these the advocacy of it has usually been conjoined with that of temperance, peace, homeopathy, and the cold-water cure.

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