“The animals you say were ‘sent’ for man’s free use and nourishment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid: why did they come aeons before man, to spend long centuries on earth awaiting their devourer’s birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were surely the maddest gift ever given—‘sent’ for man’s use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it!”

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