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  1. Hesiod's Works and Days (PDF 6mb) contained in Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams; Hesiod's Works and Days; Musæus' Hero and Leander, trans. George Chapman, London,1858. Hesiod (c.8th Century BC) Describes a 'golden age' of a plant based diet.

  2. Outlines of Jainism (PDF 7mb) by Jagmanderlal Jaini M.A., Indore. Pub. Cambridge, 1916. Founded by Mahavira, 599 BC - avoids all harm to animal life.
  3. The Kalpa Sutra, and Nava Tatva: two works illustrative of the Jain religion and philosophy (PDF 7mb) trans. & appendix by J. Stevenson, Bombay. Pub. London, 1818
  4. Jaina Sutras Part I & II (link to Google books) trans. Hermann Jacobi, Oxford 1884

  5. Texts from the Buddhist canon, commonly known as Dhammapada, with accompanying narratives (PDF 9mb) trans. Samuel Beal, Prof. of Chinese, London, 1878. Buddha (?563-483 BC)
  6. The Lankavatara Sutra; a Mahayana text (PDF 9mb) trans. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, London, 1932

  7. The Fragments of Empedocles (PDF 5mb) trans. W.E. Leonard Ph.D., Chicago, 1908. Part 2 refers to transmigration of souls and the Orphic/Pythagorean traditions. Empodokles (?480-430 B.C.)
  8. Plato's Republic (PDF 7mb) trans. Lewis Campbell M.A., LL.D., London, 1902. In Books II & III Plato (428-347 BC) develops the dietary ideas of Pythagoras.
  9. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (PDF 15mb)  by Diogenes Laertius (?412-?323 BC), trans. C. D. Yonge B.A., London, 1853. Includes sections on Pythagoras, Empedocles, etc.

  10. Asoka, the Buddhist emperor of India (PDF 9mb) by Vincent A. Smith M.R.A.S., Oxford, 1901. Asoka (273?-232 BC) banned all animal slaughter in India.
  11. The Laws of Manu (link to Google books) trans. George Bühler, Oxford, 1886. Somewhat disputed Hindu texts... does not prohibit meat eating but: p.99, Law 48: "Meat can never be obtained without injury to living creatures, and injury to sentient beings is detrimental to (the attainment of) heavenly bliss ; let him therefore shun (the use of) meat."

  12. Ovid's Metamorphoses (link to Google books) By Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC - AD 17). This edition pub. London 1822. Book 15, p.516 is a biography of Pythagoras. p.519: 'He first forbid animal food to be served up at the tables of men'.
  13. Seneca's Morals (PDF 17mb) - by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.5 BC - AD 65) - trans Sir Roger L'Estrange, New York, c.1870. p110 : "I gave over eating of flesh"
  14. Plutarch's Morals Vol.5 (PDF 27mb) by Plutarch (c.AD 46-c.120)- edited by W. W. Goodwin Ph.D, Harvard, 1878. Includes the essay 'Of Eating Flesh'
  15. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: (PDF 52mb) Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325 edited by A. Roberts and J. Donaldson, Vol.2 (of 10 vols.)
  16. Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence from Animal Food; etc. (PDF 10mb) - Porphyry (233-304 AD), trans. T. Taylor, London, 1823
  17. The works of the Emperor Julian . . . translated from the Greek (PDF 37mb) pub. 1798. p.178: Julian [331-363]. . . lived on vegetables (several references to his Pythagorean diet.)

  18. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science Vol.1 (PDF 18mb) by Eugène Müntz, 1898. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) p.17 footnote: "It appears from Corsali's letter that Leonardo ate no meat, but lived entirely on vegetables, thus forestalling our modern vegetarians by several centuries."

  19. Discourses on the sober life (Discorsi della vita sobria) (PDF 8.3mb) Being the personal narrative of Luigi Cornaro (1467-1566), New York, 1916 edition.
  20. The Art of Living Long (PDF 12mb) - the treatise by the celebrated Venetian centenarian, Luigi Cornaro (1465-1566), with essays, 1903 edition

  21. Utopia (PDF 17mb) by Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) 1904 edition
  22. The Essays of Michael de Montaigne, Vol II (PDF 34mb) trans. Pierre Coste, this edition London 1811. by Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

  23. Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton (plain text 146k) this edition c.1876. John Milton 1608-1674 - Elegy VI, line 60: 'Let herbs to them a bloodless banquet give'
  24. Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (PDF 13mb) this edition 1854.
  25. The Works of Abraham Cowley Vol.III (PDF 6mb) by Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson, John Aikin, this edition 1806. Abraham Cowley (1620-1667) p.173 The Garden
  26. Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (plain text 255k) by John Evelyn (1620-1706) First pub. 1699, this edition New York, 1937. From the foreword: 'Evelyn ... is probably the first advocate in England of a meatless diet.'
  27. Tryon's Letters, Domestick and Foreign, to Several Persons of Quality, Occasionally Distributed in Subjects, Viz. Philosophical, Theological, and Moral. (PDF 19mb) by Thomas Tryon (1634-1703), pub.1700 (see eg Letter XIX 'Of Flesh Broths', p.87)

  28. The Ephrata community 120 years ago (PDF 3mb) The Ephrata 'vegan' community was founded by German settlers in Pennsylvania in 1721, this account pub.1905.
  29. Souvenir book of the Ephrata cloister (PDF 6mb) complete history, pub.1921

  30. An Essay of Health and Long Life (PDF 11mb) By George Cheyne, M.D. F.R.S., (1671-1743) pub.1724. " Benefit of a low Diet, living altogether on 'vegetable Food and pure Element.' "
  31. A Treatise on Health and Long Life ...: To which is Added to this Edition, (not in Any Former One) the Life of the Author (PDF 7 mb) By George Cheyne, 10th edition, London 1787

  32. Fables of Mr. John Gay (PDF 27mb) first appeared 1726, this edition London, 1773. John Gay (1685-1732) wrote many references to humane diet.
  33. The Fable of the Bees (PDF 18mb) by Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733), pub.1729
  34. The Seasons (PDF 13mb) by James Thomson, first published 1726-30, this edition London, 1824. Humanitarian poetry, particularly 'Spring'.

  35. Emanuel Swedenborg : a biography (PDF 14mb) by James Wilkinson, Boston, 1849. Swedenborg (1688-1772) p.238: He writes on the subject in his Arcana as follows: " Considered apart, eating the flesh of animals is somewhat profane...."

  36. Works Vol.26 (inc. The Princess of Babylon) (PDF 6mb) by Voltaire (1694-1778). This edition 769.
  37. The Philosophical Dictionary (PDF 12 mb) by Voltaire, a short edition from 1766. See Beasts p.33
  38. A Philosophical Dictionary Vol. VI (PDF 16mb) by Voltaire. This edition, London, 1824. See Viands p.315
  39. Memoirs of the Life of Voltaire (PDF 4mb) by Voltaire. This edition London, 1784

  40. An Essay on Man (PDF 4mb) by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), first pub. 1732-5, this edition London 1796. Humane commentary
  41. Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations Vol.2 (PDF 18mb) by David Hartley (1705-1757), first pub. 1749. This edition 1801. Much concerned with animals as food eg: 'With respect to animal diet, let it be considered, that taking away the lives of animals, in order to convert them into food, does great violence to the principles of benevolence and compasion.' p.222

  42. John Wesley (1703-1791) (PDF 7mb) biography by Richard Green, pub. late 19th century. p.35: in the hope of thereby promoting his own piety, he began to use a vegetable diet.
  43. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (PDF 12mb) by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) edited by John Bigelow, 1868 edition p.97 When about 16 years of age I happened to meet with a book, written by one Tryon, recommending a vegetable diet. I determined to go into it. (he remained on it for about 17 years)
  44. Rousseau's Emile; or, Treatise on education (PDF 11mb) this edition New York, c.1918. Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
  45. John Howard (1726-1790) (PDF 15mb) Biography of the prison reformer by Edgar C. S. Gibson, London, 1901. p.180: "has been accustomed for years to exist on vegetables and water, a little bread, and a little tea."

  46. Letters from a citizen of the world to his friends in the East (PDF 17mb) by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), this edition 1840. 'I have seen the very men who thus boasted of their tenderness, at the same time devour the flesh of six different animals tossed up in a fricasee.' p.32.
  47. Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy (PDF 26mb) by William Paley (1743-1805) this edition Boston, 1810. p.65: questions the right to the flesh of animals

  48. Free Thoughts Upon the Brute-creation (PDF 7mb) By John Hildrop, London, 1742
  49. A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals (PDF 9mb) By Humphrey Primatt, London 1776
  50. An Introduction To The Principles Of Morals And Legislation (PDF 22mb) by Jeremy Bentham, first pub.1780. This edition 1907. p.311: The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
  51. Disquisitions on Several Subjects (PDF 2mb) by Soame Jenyns (1704-1787), first pub. London 1782; this edition 1822. p.19: Disquisition II - On Cruely to Inferior Animals

  52. The Task (PDF 7mb) by William Cowper, first pub.1782; this edition London, 1817. Humanitarian poetry
  53. Schiller's "The song of the bell"; and other poems (PDF 3mb) Trans. Thomas C. Zimmerman, pub. Pennsylvania, 1896 - see Der Alpenjäger (The Hunter of the Alps) in both German and English,
  54. The Cry of Nature (html page) by John Oswald (1730-1793) - full text from 1791.

  55. Paul and Virginia (PDF 2mb) By Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, this edition, London 1828
  56. Studies of Nature Vol. IV (PDF 29mb) By Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, this edition London, 1809

  57. The Dorrellites (PDF 30mb) 'vegan' community in 1790s New England. See pp.82-89 of this extremely hostile volume of 'History and proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley memorial association' pub.1898.
  58. Johnny Appleseed : a pioneer hero (PDF 2mb) by W. D. Haley, 1871. This edition 1955. Johnny (1774-1846) was based in Western Pennsylvania. p.8: 'He believed it to be a sin to kill any creature for food'.

  59. An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food (PDF 8mb) by Joseph Ritson (1761-1803), pub.1802
  60. Joseph Ritson, A Critical Biography (PDF 14mb), by Henry Alfred Burd, 1916

  61. The Code of Health and Longevity Or a Concise View of the Principles Calculated for the Preservation of Health and the Attainment of Long Life. Vol III: (PDF 18mb) by John Sinclair, pub 1806.
  62. Facts authentic, in science and religion: designed to illustrate a new tr. of the Bible (PDF 43mb) by William Cowherd, 1818

  63. Les Confidences: Confidential Disclosures (PDF 8mb) by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) 1857 edition. p.60: 'to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state'.

  64. Life of Lord Byron : with his letters and journals (Vol.1 - to 1811) (PDF 13mb) pub. London, 1839, this edition 1854. Byron (1788-1824) had a rather inconsistent meatless diet - p.356 (1811): "...an entire vegetable diet, neither fish nor flesh coming within my regimen."
  65. Life of Lord Byron : with his letters and journals (Vol.2 - 1811-1813) (PDF 26mb) pub. London, 1839, this edition 1854.
  66. Life of Lord Byron : with his letters and journals (Vol.3 1814-17) (PDF 12mb) pub. London, 1839, this edition 1854. p.337: abstinence.... like some years ago, ...of diet, and, with the exception of some convivial weeks and days, (it might be months, now and then,) have kept to Pythagoras ever since.
  67. Lord Byron's Don Juan (PDF 36mb) first two Cantos pub.1819, unfinished at Canto 16 on Byron's death in 1824. This complete edition from Philadelphia, 1859. Overall it reflects Byron's inconsistency about his diet.

  68. Shelley at Oxford (1810/11) (PDF 14mb) - by Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Originally published as a series of magazine articles in 1832/33. This edition from 1904.
  69. Letters from Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1810/11) (PDF 3.7mb) - with notes by W. M. Rossetti and H. Buxton Forman, 1897
  70. Letters from Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener - Vol.1, 1811 (PDF 6.0mb) - privately printed 1890
  71. Letters from Shelley (& some by Harriet) to Elizabeth Hitchener - Vol.2, 1812 (PDF 5.5mb) - privately printed 1890
  72. A Vindication of Natural Diet (original 1813) (PDF 2.3mb) - by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - 1884, with a preface by Henry S. Salt and W.E.A. Axon, 1884 edition.
  73. The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley Vol. 2 (PDF 20mb) by Jefferson Hogg, pub. 1858. This is a much critcised biography, more about Hogg than Shelley. V.2 covers 1813.
  74. Letters from Shelley to William Godwin Vol.1 - 1812 & 1816 (PDF 4.0mb) - privately printed 1891
  75. Letters from Shelley to William Godwin Vol.1 - 1816 to 1820 (PDF 3.9mb) - privately printed 1891
  76. Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus (PDF 37mb) by Mary W. Shelley. Written 1816-17, first pub.1818. This is the revised version from 1831. Mary Shelley's vegetarian monster (the book includes The Ghost Seer Vol.1, by Schiller)
  77. Letters from Shelley to Jane Clairmont (1816-1822) (PDF 3.8mb) - privately printed 1889
  78. The Shelley Society's papers. 1886-1890 (PDF 25mb) - 20 articles by various authors
  79. A Shelley Primer (PDF 6.4mb) - by Henry S. Salt 1887
  80. Shelley's Vegetarianism (PDF 1.2mb) - by W.E.A.Axon, 1890
  81. Shelley's principles; has time refuted or confirmed them? (PDF 3.5mb) by Henry S. Salt, 1892
  82. Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and pioneer; a biographical study (PDF 13mb) - by Henry S. Salt, 1896
  83. Peacock's memoir of Shelley, with Shelley's letters to Peacock (PDF 13mb) - 1909 edition
  84. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (plain text .txt files) - edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A., 1914,with Prefaces and notes by Mrs. Shelley:
    • Volume 1 (.txt 1.25mb) - Major poems
    • Volume 2 (.txt 404k) - Short Poems and Fragments
    • Volume 3 (.txt 663k) - Translations, Epigrams and Juvenilia
  85. Selected prose works of Shelley (PDF 8.9mb) - edited by Henry S. Salt, 1915 - The necessity of atheism -- A letter to Lord Ellenborough -- A refutation of deism -- A defence of poetry -- Essay on the literature, the arts, and the manners of the Athenians -- On life -- On a future state -- Essay on Christianity

  86. The Surgical Works Vol.2 (PDF 15mb) by John Abernethy, pub, London 1811. 'Of Tumours' p.93: '...the power of the regimen recommend by Dr. Lambe should be fairly tried.'
  87. Water and Vegetable Diet in Consumption, Scrofula, Cancer, Asthma, and Other Chronic Diseases (PDF 10mb) by Dr. William Lambe, First Pub. London 1815 as 'Additional reports on the effects of a peculiar regimen in the cases of cancer, scrofula, consumption, asthma and other chronic diseases.' This edition 1850 New York with intro by Joel Shew M.D.

  88. History of the Philadelphia Bible-Christian Church from 1817 to 1917 (PDF 2mb) pub.1922

  89. A Defence of the Graham System of Living: Or, Remarks on Diet and Regimen. Dedicated to the Rising Generation (PDF 10mb), by Sylvester Graham New York, 1835
  90. Lectures on the Science of Human Life (PDF 33mb) by Sylvester Graham, pub. by William Horsell (see below) London 1854
  91. The philosophy of sacred history considered in relation to human aliment and the wines of Scripture (PDF 14mb) - by Sylvester Graham, edited by Henry S. Clubb, pub. W. Horsell, London, 1859

  92. The Moral Reformer and Teacher on the Human Constitution Vol.1 (PDF 12mb) by William Andrus Alcott, Boston, 1835
  93. The Moral Reformer and Teacher on the Human Constitution Vol.2 (PDF 19mb) by William Andrus Alcott, Boston, 1836
  94. The Young Mother: Or, Management of Children in Regard to Health (PDF 7mb), by William Andrus Alcott, Boston, 1836 - this edition 1838
  95. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages (PDF 7.6mb) by William Andrus Alcott, 1838
  96. The Young House-keeper, Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery (PDF 8mb), by William Andrus Alcott, Boston, 1838
  97. Lectures on Life and Health, Or, The Laws and Means of Physical Culture (PDF 16mb) by William A. Alcott, Boston, 1853
  98. The Laws of Health (PDF 26mb), by William Andrus Alcott, Boston, 1859

  99. On the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason, and On the will in nature; two essays. (PDF 29mb) by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), 1 -written 1813, expanded 1847. 2- written 1836. Translated by Mme. Hillebrand, first published in London 1889. This edition 1903. p.115: "man...now no longer recognises animals as his brethren, and falsely believes them to differ fundamentally from him, seeking to confirm this illusion by calling them brutes,"
  100. The Basis of Morality (PDF 25mb) by Arthur Schopenhauer. Translated with introd. and notes by Arthur B. Bullock. First pub. 1840. This edition 1915.
  101. Life of Arthur Schopenhauer (PDF 11mb) by William Wallace, 1890
  102. Schopenhauer (PDF 3mb) biography by Margrieta Beer, c.1914 p.32: He condemned vivisection, on the ground that animals have rights.

  103. Lectures to ladies on anatomy and physiology (PDF 7mb) by Mary Gove Nichols, Boston, 1842 - many references to the vegetable diet.

  104. Bronson Alcott at Alcott House, England, and Fruitlands, New England (1842-1844) (PDF 5mb) by F. B. Sanborn, 1908. Bronson Alcott (1788-1888)
  105. Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands (1843) (PDF 12mb) compiled by Clara Endicott Sears with Transcendental Wild Oats (1876) by Louisa May Alcott, 1915 edition
  106. The New Age - Concordium Gazette (PDF 19.4mb) - from Alcott House, Ham Common, Surrey. Complete issues - May 1843 to December 1844 This includes the first known use of the word 'vegetarian' in 1843.
  107. Pedlar's Progress The Life Of Bronson Alcott (PDF 42mb) by Odell Shepard, Boston, 1937

  108. Religion, Natural and Revealed (PDF 8mb): by Orson S. Fowler, New York, 1st pib. 1844, 10th edition 1848 p.136: Were a flesh diet productive of no other evil consequence than lowering ... benevolence that alone should forever annihilate so barbarous a practice'.
  109. Physiology, animal and mental (PDF 35mb) by Orson S. Fowler, New York, 1847, 5th edition 1851 (half of Fowler & Wells, NY, which published many of the veg-related books on this page).

  110. Fruits and farinacea the proper food of man (PDF 9mb) by John Smith, London 1845

  111. Hydropathy for the People (PDF 9mb) by William Horsell, written in England in 1845, with notes by Russell Trall M.D. for this New York, 1850 edition. Horsell hosted the founding meeting of The Vegetarian Society at his Hydropathic Hospital, Ramsgate, in 1847, and became the first Secretary.
  112. The Hydropathic Encyclopedia Vol.2 (PDF 18mb) by Russell Trall, New York, 1851 Trall was a founder member of the American Vegetarian Society in 1850.
  113. Hydrotherapy or The Water-Cure (PDF 17mb) by Joel Shew, New York 1851. Shew was a Vice-president of the American Vegetarian Society.

  114. The Truth Tester (1846-48) and The Vegetarian Advocate (1848-50) (html pages) published by William Horsell, Ramsgate then London. Became the official journal of The Vegetarian Society from Sept.1847. No full scan available, just extracts.

  115. Philosophy of Health: Natural Principles of Health and Cure (PDF 7mb) by Larkin Baker Coles M.D. Boston, first pub. 1848 - 26th revised edition 1851 (claims 28,000 sold) p.51 The Quality of Foods (promotes vegetable diet)

  116. Recollections of a busy life (PDF 26mb) by Horace Greeley (1811-1872) pub.1869 - editor of the NY Tribune and a vegetarian from about 1835. p.98: Chapter VIII - Temperance in all things
  117. Horace Greeley Voice Of The People (PDF 26mb) by William Harlan Hale, 1950.

  118. Walden (PDF 20mb) by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), first pub.1854. This edition with intro by Will H. Dircks, 1886.
  119. Life and writings of Henry David Thoreau (PDF 12mb) by Henry S. Salt, written 1890 - 1896 edition.
  120. Thoreau's philosophy of life, with special consideration of the influence of Hindoo philosophy (PDF 11mb) by Helena A. Snyder, Dissertation, Heidelberg University, 1902. p.20 Absitence from meat eating

  121. Health: Its Friends and Foes (PDF 8mb) by Reuben D. Mussey M.D., LL.D, Boston, 1862. p.169: Chapter VIII - Man by nature a vegetable eater - vegetarianism

  122. Sir Isaac Pitman, his life and labors (PDF 8mb) by Benn Pitman, 1902. - invented phonography, Pitman shorhand etc., and was a Vice President of The Vegetarian Society
  123. The life of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of phonography (PDF 16mb) by Alfred Baker, London, 1913

  124. Essays on Diet (plain text 352k) by Prof. Francis William Newman (1805-1897) written 1868-76. Pub.1883. President of The Vegetarian Society, 1873-84

  125. Richard Wagner, Letters to Mathilde Wesendonck (1850s & 60s) (plain text file 827k) by Richard Wagner (1813-1883), 1905 edition. Includes compassion to animals in 1858 letter, p47
  126. The Nietzsche-Wagner correspondence (PDF 9mb) pub. London 1922. Covers 1869-1876 - in 1869 Nietzsche (1844-1900) was vegetarian but Wagner was anti, by 1876 their positions had reversed.
  127. The Young Nietzsche (PDF 12mb) by his sister, English edition London, 1912. Goes up to 1876, age 32 - makes no specific mention of his vegetarianism, but does account for how he gave it up.
  128. Religion and Art (html page) by Richard Wagner, dealing with vegetarianism - originally appeared in the Bayreuther Blätter for October 1880, constituting the whole of that number of the journal. Translated 1897 by W. A Ellis in Vol.6 of Wagner's Prose Works.
  129. Parsifal in English verse : from the German of Richard Wagner (PDF 2mb) Wagner's last work, first performed 1882, this edition London, 1899. The Act I anti-cruelty scene is from p.13; Act III opens with the characters eating 'herbs and roots' p.56 - possible interpretations are endless....
  130. Nietzsche (PDF 12mb) biography by Crane Brinton, Harvard, 1941. Makes a very brief mention of Nietzsche's vegetarianism.

  131. The perfect way in diet: A Treatise Advocating a Return to the Natural and Ancient Food of Our Race (plain text 331k) by Anna Kingsford (1846-1888), 1881
  132. The story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the New Gospel of interpretation (PDF 9mb) by Edward Maitland. First pub.1893. This edition 1905.

  133. The Hindoos as they are: a description of the manners, customs, and inner life of Hindoo society in Bengal (PDF 20mb) by Shib Chunder Bose, first pub.1881. This edition Calcutta, 1883. 'The writer has exposed the ... evils to India of English dietetic habits' (Howard Williams in Ethics of Diet).
  134. Poetical works of Edwin Arnold : containing The light of Asia (PDF 12mb) 1883. p.95: 'henceforth none Shall spill the blood of life nor taste of flesh' (in 1891 Arnold was Vice-President of the Bayswater Vegetarian Club, of which Gandhi was Secretary)

  135. Gustav Mahler : a study of his personality and work (PDF 9mb) by Paul Stefan, pub. New York, c.1913. p.18: he was at that time [early 1880s] both an abstainer and a vegetarian. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
  136. Hugo Wolf (PDF 36mb) by Ernest Newman, pub. London, 1907 p.23: 'So hard pressed was he indeed that for a while he took to vegetarianism as the cheapest way of living.' [it probably has as much to do with Wagner as poverty for both Mahler and Wolf]

  137. The Ethics of Diet - A Catena (html pages) by Howard Williams M.A., first pub. London 1883. The first 'history of vegetarianism', extracts so far, being extended.
  138. The Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger, August, 1884 (PDF 20mb) - The Vegetarian Society (Manchester), one complete issue - the first section of a large book of other misc. articles.
  139. A Plea for Vegetarianism (PDF 2mb) - by Henry Salt, pub.1886. The book that Gandhi referred to in his autobiography.
  140. The Vegetarian (html pages) extracts from the weekly newspaper published in London, 1888-1903.

  141. Civilisation; its cause and cure, and other essays (PDF 8mb) by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) first pub.1889. This edition 1921. p.217: human . . . knows at once its kinship with all the other forms.'
  142. Towards Democracy (PDF 12mb) by Edward Carpenter, 1892. p.22 'Do you batten like a ghoul on the dead corpses of animals?

  143. Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual Of Cheap And Wholesome Diet (plain text file 446k) - by A. G. Payne, London Vegetarian Society 1891
  144. New Vegetarian Dishes (plain text file 161k) Mrs. Bowditch, London Vegetarian Society, 1892

  145. Vegetarianism in the light of Theosophy (html page) by Annie Besant, from a lecture published by the Theosophical Publ. Soc. London & "Theosophist" Madras in 1894

  146. Animals' Rights, Considered in Relation to Social Progress (plain text 282k) by Henry Salt, London, 1894

  147. The Golden Age Cook Book (PDF 6mb) by Henrietta Latham Dwight, New York, 1898

  148. Tolstoy Essays and Letters (PDF 16mb) by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), edited by Aylmer Maude, 1911. Includes The First Step - written in 1892, originally as a preface to the Russian edition of Howard Williams' Ethics of Diet.
  149. A run through Russia : the story of a visit to Count Tolstoi (1890) (PDF 8mb) by William Newton, Hartford (Conn), 1894
  150. The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895-99 (PDF 9mb) this edition New York, 1917
  151. How Count L.N. Tolstoy lives and works (PDF 3mb) by P. Sergieenko, 1899 p.88: He is a vegetarian from conviction, and for many years has eaten neither meat nor fish, but attributes great importance to vegetable diet, both from a physiological and from an esthetic point of view.
  152. Tolstoy and his Problems (PDF 6mb): by Aylmer Maude, essays, 2nd edition 1902 (date of 1st edition not given). p.20 Tolstoy became a strict vegetarian, eating only the simplest food and avoiding stimulants.
  153. A Letter to a Hindu (plain text 50k) by Tolstoy, December 1908, with an intro by Gandhi 1909.
  154. The Life of Tolstoy Vol.2 (PDF 32mb) by Aylmer Maude, 1st edition 1910/11. Gives accounts of his vegetarianism from Autumn 1885.
  155. Tolstoy (PDF 7mb) biography by Romain Rolland, 1911
  156. Reminiscences of Tolstoy (PDF 13mb) by Count Ilia Tolstoy (his son), English edition pub. 1914 Recalls his father's vegetarianism.

  157. The stomach: its disorders and how to cure them (PDF 15mb) by J. H. Kellogg, Battle Creek, 1896
  158. The Itinerary of a Breakfast (PDF 7mb) by J. H. Kellogg, Battle Creek, pub.1920
  159. Health habits (PDF 29mb) by M. V. O'Shea and J. H. Kellogg, c1915, pub.1921

  160. Every living creature; or, Heart-training through the animal world (PDF 3mb) by Ralph Waldo Trine, 1899
  161. The Vivisection Question (PDF 11mb) articles from 1880 to 1900 compiled by Albert Leffingwell M.D, 1901

  162. Reform Cookery Book (plain text 300k) by Mrs. Mill, first pub. 1904; 4th edition, Scotland, 1909
  163. The Vegetarian Cookbook - substitutes for flesh foods (PDF 25mb) - by E. G. Fulton, California 1904

  164. A great Russian tone-poet, Scriabin (PDF 20mb) by A.E. Hull, London 1916. Refers to Scriabin's theosophy, from about 1904, which led to his vegetarianism.

  165. The Food of the Future (PDF 10mb) a summary of arguments in favour of a non-flesh diet, by Charles W. Forward, London, 1904.

  166. The Universal Kinship (PDF 8mb) by J. Howard Moore (1862-1916), pub. Chicago, 1906. "kinship of all the inhabitants of the planet Earth"

  167. Meat substitutes (PDF 4mb) by Isabel Goodhue, New York, 1907
  168. Modern meatless cook book : five hundred recipes (PDF 4mb) - by House of Rest, San Jose, Calif., 1907
  169. A Manual of Vegetarian Cookery (plain text file 138k) by George Black, London, 1908

  170. Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition (PDF 49mb) by Hereward Carrington, New York 1908
  171. Therapeutic Dietetics; or, The Science of health foods and their medicinal values (PDF 3mb) by Norton F. W. Hazeldine, Calif., c1908
  172. Unfired foods and hygienic dietetics for prophylactic (preventative) feeding and therapeutic (remedial) feeding (PDF 13mb) by George J. Drews, Chicago, c1909

  173. The Perfect Wagnerite : a commentary on the Niblung's Ring (PDF 11mb) by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) on Wagner, with mention of Shelley, first pub.1898. This edition from 1912
  174. The Doctor's Dilemma; a tragedy (PDF 15mb) by George Bernard Shaw, 1906, this edition London, 1922. In Shaw's usual style, the preface is as long as the play - much about vivisection, vaccination etc.
  175. George Bernard Shaw: A Critical Biography (plain text 1mb) by Archibald Henderson, North Carolina, 1911
  176. Bernard Shaw, a Study (PDF 7mb) by Louis Segal, as a Thesis for the University of Berne, 1912
  177. The twentieth century Molière: Bernard Shaw (PDF 11mb) by A. F. Hamon, trans. from French, London 1915. A detailed review of Shaw approachng 60.
  178. Bernard Shaw, the Man and the Mask (PDF 11mb) by Richard Burton, New York, 1916

  179. The Laurel health cookery : a collection of practical suggestions and recipes (PDF 19mb) - Evora B. Perkins, MA, USA, 1911
  180. The Progress Meatless Cook Book (PDF 5mb) by Carlotta Lake, Los Angeles, 1911.
  181. Food and Cookery (PDF 7mb) by H. S. Anderson, Loma Linda, Calif., 1911

  182. Humanitarian Philosophy (PDF 5mb) by Emil Edward Kusel, Los Angeles, 1912

  183. My Path Through Life (PDF 26mb) Lilli Lehmann, (1848-1929) autobiography of the Wagnerian opera soprano, 1914. pp.400-1: 'I owe the complete cessation of my agitation before my public appearances and in other affairs of life to ... vegetarianism'.

  184. The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book (plain text file 441k) - by Dr. T. R. Allinson, London, 1915
  185. The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six Hundred Recipes for Meatless Dishes (plain text file 352k) by Mrs Maud Russell Lorraine Sharpe Freshel c.1907/10, pub. Boston 1918

  186. A Scientific Investigation into Vegetarianism (PDF 9mb) by Jules Lefèvre, Paris, trans. Fred Rothwell, c.1920

  187. Seventy years among savages (PDF 13mb) by Henry S. Salt, 1921

  188. Romain Rolland; the man and his work (PDF 12mb) by Stefan Zweig, New York, 1921. Romain Rolland (1866-1944) - vegetarian writer and friend of many great vegetarians.
  189. Musicians of to-day (PDF 20mb) by Romain Rolland, written 1903-8, this edition London, 1919. Includes Wagner (with Tolstoy on Wagner) and Hugo Wolf

  190. Albert Schweitzer An Anthology (PDF 25mb) edited by Charles R. Joy, Boston, 1947. p.269: Slowly in our European thought comes the notion that ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. Dr Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

  191. A guide to health (PDF 6mb) - Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1921
  192. An Autobiography or The story of my experiments with truth (PDF 2mb) - M. K. Gandhi, 1925
  193. A Quest For Gandhi (PDF 15mb) by Reginald Reynolds, 1952. Personal account of Ghandi at the ashrams.
  194. The Essential Gandhi (PDF 27mb) an anthology of Gandhi's writing edited by Louis Fisher, New York, 1962

  195. The Vegetarian World Forum (html pages) published from 1947-1970. The official journal of IVU in the 1950s. No complete scans, but many extracts.

  196. Souvenir Book of the 15th World Vegetarian Congress - India, 1957 - (converted to HTML as the PDF was 600mb) - huge collection of articles by various authors.

  197. The British Vegetarian (html pages) published from 1959 to 1971. The official journal of IVU in the 1960s. No complete scans, but many extracts.

  198. How to Eat to Live Vol. 2 (PDF 537k) by Elijah Muhammad, 1967. Chap.19: To eat meat is against our life and shortens the span of our life. We eat meat because it is a habit from childhood.

  199. Vegetarian Voice and Vegetarian Times 1974/5 issues (html pages) - all concerning the IVU World Vegetarian Congress in Maine, USA, 1975.

  200. The Vegetarian Movement in England, 1847-1981 - (PhD thesis bound in a few printed copies but never previously published, converted to html) - by Julia Twigg, 1981

  201. IVU News / EVU News / VUNA Views (html pages) complete issues from 1995 until publication ceased.

  202. Vegetarianism in Australia, A History (PDF 8mb) by Edgar Crook, 2008

 

 

 









 

 









 

 









 
































































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