^* Let those who doubt it read those numerous books, composed by scholars and physicians, in which it is proved that meat is not necessary for man’s alimentation. And let them not listen to those old-fashioned doctors, who defend the necessity of subsisting on meat, only because their predecessors and they themselves have recognized it as necessary for a long time – they defend it with stubbornness, with malice, as everything old and obsolete is always defended. [L. T.]