"Refrain at all times such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. For know, that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth their Complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded. Be not insensible that every Creature doth bear the Image of the great Creator according to the Nature of each, and that he is the Vital Power in all things. Therefore let none take pleasure to offer violence to that Life, lest he awaken the fierce wrath, and bring danger to his own Soul."
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Wisdom's Dictates, London, 1691, §§ 39–42.
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Thomas Tryon
(September 6, 1634 – August 21, 1703) was an English merchant, author of popular self-help books, and early advocate of vegetarianism.
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