Click "free sample" to read the whole book no need to purchase. "Man has been distinguished from other animals in various ways; but perhaps there is no particular in which he exhibits so marked a difference from the rest of creation-not even in the prehensile faculty resident in his hand-as in the objection to raw food, meat, and vegetables. He approximates to his inferior contemporaries only in the matter of fruit, salads, and oysters, not to mention wild ducks. He entertains no sympathy with the cannibal, who judges the flavor of his enemy improved by a temporary commitment to a subterranean larder; yet, to be sure, he keeps his grouse and his venison till it approaches the condition of spoon-meat." "So little is to be collected in the shape of direct testimony, next to nothing of the domestic life of the Britons-that it is only by conjecture that one arrives at the conclusion that the original diet of our countrymen consisted of vegetables, wild fruit, the honey of wild bees-which is still extensively used in this country, -a coarse sort of bread, and milk.