A stock argument of radical vegetarians is that meat eating deadens the moral and intellectual faculties. One who reflects that Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus ate flesh foods cannot be deeply impressed by it. Likewise the statement that animals living on a vegetarian diet are strong and tractable, while carnivorous animals are ferocious does not withstand inquiry. The average bull or belligerent billy goat can strike terror into the heart of man with less provocation than is necessary to render dangerous a lion or a wolf. The gentle and happy disposition of the Eskimo on his strictly carnivorous diet stands in marked contrast to the ferocity with which the vegetarian Ben-galese deported themselves during the mutiny of 1857.