THE LOGIC OF VEGETARIANISM.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—I fear the copy of my "Logic of Vegetarianism" sent you for review must have been a defective one. Your critic complains that I have omitted mention of certain points which he regards as important,—viz., non-flesh-eating dominant races, vegetarian athletes, and the diet of the Esquimaux ; whereas, in fact, I referred epecifically to the rations of the Roman soldier in ancient times and the Turkish soldier in modern, and to the successes of vegetarian athletes (as, for instance, that of Karl Mann in the great German walking race), while I pointed out that the diet of the Esquimanx is about as relevant as that of the Polar bears to a discussion of the food-system of a civilised people in the temperate zone. I am driven to conclude that pp. 15, 16, 32, 33, 72, 74 of my book were unaccountably missing ; for the only alternative seems to be that your reviewer was criticising what he had not had time to read, and was singularly unfortunate in his selection of supposed omissions.—I am, Sir, &c., [We are sorry if we have misrepresented Mr. Salt, bat the typical case of the Esquimau; to take one of Mr. Salt's points, cannot be so easily disposed of. Mr. Salt must draw an isothermal line defining the vegetarian region.—ED. Spectator.]
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