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58 But why should poets, and divines, and all men of refinement and intelligence, attach the ideas of villany and cruelty to the killing and eating of

animals amongst the insect tribes, if the highest development of the human being requires him to obtain a part of his sustenance in a similar manner?

Is there not as much of treachery and fierceness, to say nothing of villany and cunning, in slaughtering and devouring a pet lamb, or an innocent calf, as in catching and eating flies?