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)

1. Man-centered Creeds
2. Pessimistic Pantheism
3. Joyous Wisdom
4. Action Precedes Theory
5. Lights in the Night
6. Diet, Dress, Amusement and Hard Work
7. Ritual Slaughter of Animals
8. Knowledge and Therapy
9. The Rights of Plants
10. Active Kindness
11. Race, Economics and Kindness. The Ideal World

[edit] External links

• Complete text of Impeachment of Man
• Impeachment of Man at the publisher's page.
• "Knowledge and Therapy", excerpted from a later chapter.
• "Savitri Devi and the National Socialist Religion of Nature" by Jeffrey Kaplan, University of Helsinki.

v • d • e 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