Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily VIII/Chapter 16

Chapter XVI.&#8212;Cannibalism.

&#8220;And the men who were with them there for the first time were eager to do the like.&#160; Thus, although we are born neither good nor bad, we become one or the other; and having formed habits, we are with difficulty drawn from them.&#160; But when irrational animals fell short, these bastard men tasted also human flesh.&#160; For it was not a long step to the consumption of flesh like their own, having first tasted it in other forms.