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Ethics of Diet: Michel de Montaigne

Howard Williams

Howard Williams, "Michel De Montaigne," in The Ethics of Diet (London & Manchester, 1883; 1896).

The modern Plutarch, and the first of Essayists, has deserved a place in the ethical history of Dietary Reformation, not as having expressly protested against the barbarisms of Butchery, but as having at once ably and conclusively established the natural rights of the victims of the Orthodox Table; and as having, by the most forcible and irrefutable argument, exposed the absurd arrogance of the human animal, in claiming unrestricted lordship over the rest of the world of being.