The Golden Age Cook Book

<p>A vegetarian cook book first published in 1898.</p><p>PREFACE</p><p>I send this little book out into the world first to aid those who having decided to adopt a bloodless diet are still asking how they can be nourished without flesh; second in the hope of gaining something further to protect the speechless ones who having come down through the centuries under the dominion of man have in their eyes the mute appealing look of the helpless and oppressed. Their eloquent silence should not ask our sympathy and aid in vain; they have a right as our humble brothers to our loving care and protection and to demand justice and pity at our hands; and as a part of the One Life to-</p><p><br></p><p>life which all can take but none can give;</p><p>Life which all creatures love and strive to keep;</p><p>Wonderful dear and pleasant unto each</p><p>Even to the meanest; yea a boon to all</p><p>Where pity is for pity makes the world</p><p>Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.</p><p>Unto the dumb lips of the flock he lent</p><p>Sad pleading words showing how man who prays</p><p>For mercy to the gods is merciless</p><p>Being as god to those; albeit all life</p><p>Is linked and kin and what we slay have given</p><p>Meek tribute of their milk and wool and set</p><p>Fast trust upon the hands which murder them.</p><p><br></p><p>If the cruelty and injustice to animals are nothing to us we have still another argument to offer-the brutalization of the men who slaughter that we may eat flesh.</p><p><br></p>