Impeachment of Man
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Impeachment of Man is a book by Savitri Devi. It recounts a history of the general indifference toward the suffering of non-human life. It puts forth a pro-vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, biocentric, and misanthropic conservationist point of view. It does so within the context of Devi's pro-Hitler and pro-Nazi political views, and devotes space to anti-Semitism and denouncing Jewish dietary practices.
Written from July 1945 - 29 March 1946, it was first published in Calcutta in 1959. Noontide Press printed a 156-page paperback in October 1991 (ISBN 0-939482-33-9).
[edit] Opening epigraph
- “Thou shalt love God in all things, animals and plants” —Alfred Rosenberg
[edit] Table of contents
- Foreword (by the publisher to the 1991 printing)
- Preface (June 22, 1959)
- Man-centered Creeds
- Pessimistic Pantheism
- Joyous Wisdom
- Action Precedes Theory
- Lights in the Night
- Diet, Dress, Amusement and Hard Work
- Ritual Slaughter of Animals
- Knowledge and Therapy
- The Rights of Plants
- Active Kindness
- Race, Economics and Kindness. The Ideal World
[edit] External links
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- Complete text of Impeachment of Man
- Impeachment of Man at the publisher's page.
- "Man-centered Creeds", excerpted chapter one of Impeachment of Man.
- "Joyous Wisdom", excerpted from chapter three.
- "Knowledge and Therapy", excerpted from a later chapter.
- "Savitri Devi and the National Socialist Religion of Nature" by Jeffrey Kaplan, University of Helsinki.
Works by Savitri Devi
| 1930s: A Warning to the Hindus • 1940s: The Lotus Pond • The Non-Hindu Indians and Indian Unity • Joy of the Sun: The Beautiful Life Of Akhnaton, King of Egypt • A Son of God: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt • 1950s: Defiance • Gold in the Furnace • Pilgrimage • The Lightning and the Sun • Paul of Tarsus, or Christianity and Jewry • 1950s: Impeachment of Man • 1960s: Long-Whiskers and the Two-Legged Goddess, Or the True Story of a “Most Objectionable Nazi” and . . . Half-A-Dozen Cats • 1970s: Souvenirs et réflexions d’une Aryenne • And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews |
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