Life of Father Hecker

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Life of Father Hecker
Elliott Walter
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For a robust man, working hard for many hoursout of every twenty-four, and deprived of all the pleasantrelaxations, literary, conversational and musical, to which he hadbeen accustoming himself for many months, the choice of such a dietas is described in the following sentences was certainlyextraordinary: "August 30. --If the past nine months or more are any evidence, I findthat I can live on very simple diet--grains, fruit, and nuts. I havejust commenced to eat the latter; I drink pure water. ...So far I havehad wheat ground and made into unleavened bread, but as soon as weget in a new lot, I shall try it in the grain. " He had evidently at this time a practical conviction of the truth ofa principle which, in after years, he repeated to the present writerin the form of a maxim of the transcendentalists: "A gross feederwill never be a central thinker. " It is a truth of the spiritual noless than of the intellectual order. A little later we come upon thefollowing profession of a vegetarian faith, which will be apt toamuse as well as to edify the reader: "_Reasons for not eating animal food.

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