" With a sudden impulse we threw
them away, and washed our hands, and boiled some rice for our
dinner. "Behold the difference between the one who eateth flesh,
and him to whom it belonged! The first hath a momentary
enjoyment, whilst the latter is deprived of existence!" "Who
would commit so great a crime against a poor animal, who is fed
only by the herbs which grow wild in the woods, and whose belly
is burnt up with hunger?" We remembered a picture of mankind in
the hunter age, chasing hares down the mountains; O me miserable!
Yet sheep and oxen are but larger squirrels, whose hides are
saved and meat is salted, whose souls perchance are not so large
in proportion to their bodies.
There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits
of nature in the cooking process. Some simple dishes recommend
themselves to our imaginations as well as palates. In parched
corn, for instance, there is a manifest sympathy between the
bursting seed and the more perfect developments of vegetable
life. It is a perfect flower with its petals, like the houstonia
or anemone.
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