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Rh reigned throughout the whole creation; and when a perpetual spring rendered the earth abundantly productive. Ovid thus describes this state:

5. The same poet—after describing the horrid cruelties inflicted upon animals, in order to appropriate their flesh as food—observes:

6. The golden age is described, in heathen mythology, as under the dominion of Saturn; when, according to Dicearchus, as related by Saint Jerome in his books on Grecian antiquities, no man ate flesh; but all lived