The most likely avenue for the suppression of vicious influence is going to be through the stomachs of men. They are venial, awful people, and the continual chase after their appetites, which might in a more rational species have been sublimed away in the soft rays of adaptation, or at least been subject to a reasonable policy aimed at extermination, takes up such a complete fraction of their time—and even when they are wealthy, with retainers, such a large segment of their thinking, the budget of waking thoughts like a scattergood’s expended on an aliquot of good trafficking—what civilization remains in ’em has no cultivation to bind person to person, but in those sallow conspiracies of attempted satiation.
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