I have just commenced to eat the latter; I drink pure water.

So far I have had wheat ground and made into unleavened bread, but as soon as we get in a new lot, I shall try it in the grain." He had evidently at this time a practical conviction of the truth of a principle which, in after years, he repeated to the present writer in the form of a maxim of the transcendentalists: "A gross feeder will never be a central thinker." It is a truth of the spiritual no less than of the intellectual order.

A little later we come upon the following profession of a vegetarian faith, which will be apt to amuse as well as to edify the reader: "_Reasons for not eating animal food._ "It does not feed the spirit.
"It stimulates the propensities.
"It is taking animal life when the other kingdoms offer sufficient and better increment.
"Slaughter strengthens the lower instincts.
"It is the chief cause of the slavery of the kitchen.
"It generates in the body the diseases animals are subject to, and encourages in man their bestiality.
"Its odor is offensive and its appearance unaesthetic." The apprehension under which he had labored, that city life would present many temptations which he would find it difficult to withstand, appears to have been unfounded.

Some few social relaxations he now and then permitted himself, but they were mostly very sober-toned.

"Last evening I attended a Methodist love-feast," is his record of one of these.