Sylvester Graham (1794–1851)

"To Sylvester Graham, above all others, should perhaps be given the place of honour in the annals of vegetarian literature; for his 'Lectures on the Science of Human Life' form the text-book from which the advocates of the reformed diet derive their most powerful arguments." - Henry S. Salt. We have William Metcalfe's signed copies of the 1st Edition. - ~ In 1839 Graham published his major work “Lectures on the Science of Human Life”. This had a series of numbered paragraphs, and #1291 says: "...though they do better on a milk and vegetable diet than one of flesh and vegetables, yet they do best when they confine themselves to a diet of pure vegetable food and pure water." ~ -… (mer)