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Why should we limit by dogma or otherwise man's liberty to select his food and drink?...[T]he great practical rule of life in regard of human diet will not be found in enforcing limitation of the sources of food which Nature has abundantly provided.
Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet
Born:
August 6, 1820
Died:
April 18, 1904
(aged 83)
Bio:
Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon and polymath.
Known for:
Food and Feeding (1879)
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