COPYRIGHT 1900
BY J. M. PEEBLES

FOURTH EDITION

STANFORD LIBRARY

DEATH DEFEATED

OR

The Psychic Secret

OF

HOW TO KEEP YOUNG

BY

J. M. PEEBLES, M. D., M. A., PH. D.

AUTHOR OF

"

"FIVE JOURNEYS AROUND THE WORLD,' "SEERS OF THE AGES," "THE
SOUL'S ORIGIN. 'IMMORTALITY OR OUR DWELLING-PLACES HERE-
AFTER, "THE CHRIST QUESTION settled,' "MAGIC IN INDIA,"
"HOW TO LIVE A CENTURY AND GROW OLD GRACEFULLY,
ANGELS OF THE AGES AND THEIR TEACHINGS,"
"PATHWAY OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT," ETC., ETC.

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FOURTH EDITION

"I have stolen the golden key of the Egyptians, I will indulge my sacred fury."

-Kepler

"There is no wealth but life-life including all its power of love, joy, admiration,
progress. That man is richest who having projected the functions of his own life to the
utmost-exerts the most helpful influence and still lives on.'

-Ruskin

"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not then escape calumny."
-Shakespeare

BATTLE CREEK, MICH.,

DR. PEEBLES' INSTITUTE OF HEALTH

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CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

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Why should man die? Is he carnivorous? Do butchers grow barbarous? Does meat make dogs stupid and unteachable? Spaniards and their bull fights. Atoms and the finer forces. How to strengthen and spiritualize the body.

INTRODUCTION.

Death too fashionable. Annihilation unthinkable. Why kill animals. Diseased herds of cattle. Why children shrink from slaughter-houses. New Zealand cannibalism. The poet Ovid vegetarianism.

CHAPTER I.

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The ethics of flesh eating.

He

The foods of the world's great men.
rodotus in Greece. His habits of life and travel. What the
oracles said of him. Pythagoras and his birth.
His many
journeyings. His 600 enthusiastic disciples. Their linen gar-
ments and abstinence from flesh eating. All things in com-
Guatama Buddha. Our Congress.

mon.

CHAPTER II.

The prophet-poet Hesiod. His poems and books. His song of the
Golden Age when men neither killed birds nor animals. Soc-
rates and his demon guide. Plato and the best Greek culture.
His travels in Egypt, etc. His dialogues. His vegetable diet.
Socrates and the new ideal republic.

ment by Augustus.

combats and blood.

CHAPTER III.

His divorce.

The Roman poet, Ovid, and his mountainous birthplace. His banishHis hatred of gladiatorial His table free from animal flesh. Seneca and his writings. His simplicity in eating. Medical men quite unnecessary. Bad diet causes disease and death. Neither dress nor condition make the man.

CHAPTER IV.

Plutarch in Italy. His style of writing. His essay against flesh eating. His care for animals. His praise of Pythagoras. How they slaughtered swine in his day. The effect of inflamed flesh. The simplicity of his diet.

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The eloquent Chrysostum in Athens. No butchering among the Ascetics. The table of a Sybarite. The early sensual indulgence of Cornaro, the Venetian. His reform. The upsetting of his coach. His protest against luxury, gluttony, and animal flesh eating. The medical practice of Mandeville, the Holland doctor. The remorse of beef eaters. The Scotch poet, Thomson. His "Seasons.' His poetic teachings against killing harmless, guileless animals. Cheyne's, the English physician and member of the Royal Society, testimony against the slaying of animals, and in favor of fruits and vegetable diet

CHAPTER VI.

The Catholic teacher of Voltaire. His many-sided genius. A list of his more prominent works. His quarrel with King Frederick. His indignation at all kinds of cruelty. His defense of the Hindus. Missionaries cutting chickens and eating them when there were dates, nuts, and fruits in abundance. Rousseau's sojourn in France. His advocacy of democracy. The unnaturalness of eating animal flesh. The ferocity of flesheaters. Buffon the author of fifteen bulky volumes. Why he rejected meats and liquor and subsisted on grains and fruits

CHAPTER VII.

Paley, author of the Argument of Design. Writer of many volumes. The rights of animals. Flesh eating a remnant of savagery. St. Pierre, the charming author, the friend of Rousseau, and one of the best prize writers in France, recommends rice, millet, maize, grains, and fruits as the proper food of man. He insists that all shall avoid flesh eating. The Brahmins of India. Oswald renouncing the soldier's life. Why he abstained from flesh foods.

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CHAPTER VIII.

Hufeland on nature's laws. His advice concerning a vegetable diet. Dr. Lambe on the dietetic question. His abandonment of animal food. The improvement of health. Phillips' early life. The prodigal's return. His work in prison reform. Foods of the Irish and Scotch peasants.

CHAPTER IX.

Graham's lectures. His famous kind of bread. to disease. The orang outang's food. but still a delusion. Grains, fruits, nuts

CHAPTER X.

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Born with tendency Meat diet stimulating strengthen the system 72

Man not naturally carnivorous. Animal flesh eating tends to prize fightings and wars. The stockyards of Chicago. Meats do not give muscular strength. There's more sustenance in beans, peas, and nuts than in beefsteak. Vegetarian bicycle racers excel the flesh eaters and secure the prizes. Meat stimulants prepare the way for other stimulants.

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