Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. The Human in Prehistory 24
6. Eastern Religions and Practice 54
7. Pythagoreanism 76
8. Greek Philosphy and Roman Imperium 94
9. Judaism and the Earlier Christian Heritage 117
10. Bogomils, Cathars, and the Later Medieval Mind 136
11. The Humanism of the Renaissance 146
12. The Cartesians and Their Adversaries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 158
13. Preaching without Practising: From Mandeville and Pope to Goldsmith and Wagner 188
14. Militant Advocates: From Oswald and Ritson to Shelley, Phillips, and Gompertz 232
15. The Victorians, the Edwardians, and the Founding of the Vegetarian Society 267
16. Vegetarians and Vegans in the Twentieth Century 290
17. Vegetarianism in North America 308
18. Postscript: Prospects 333
19. Notes 339
20. Selected Bibliography 373
21. Index 385