John Frank Newton (1770-?1827)

Quote:

So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonbably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour. - The Return to Nature (as quoted in The Extended Circle by Jon Wynne-Tyson)

• John Frank NEWTON, 1770-1825 - from The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams M.A.
• The return to nature: or, A defence of the vegetable regimen; - link to the original 1811 edition on Google Books.
  
  
• The Return to Nature, or a defence of the vegetable regimen (link to google books) - originally published in 1811. This link is to The Pamphleteer, Volumes 19-20, 1821/22 which reprinted the entire text but over several issues - read the one above!