The North American Review, Vol. 94 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The North American Review, Vol. 94 Perhaps it is among the least wonderful transformations of the French cuisine, "having given three cats, - of whom one a female, - to make six rabbit stews"! Such metamorphoses, to say the least, are harmless, if they are repulsive. Every department of modern science can show as strange ones, from the sparkling gelatine made from the hoofs of decrepit hack-horses and filthy sheep´s trotters, to the delicate gants de société, of the purest white, tanned from the back of a rat from the Paris sewers. Nor are these changes, when healthy and lawful, to be deprecated, - they even challenge our admiration; for they add so much to the stock of human production, and hence save as much from the waste of life for ever-pressing human needs. Chemical transmutation is cleaner than water; and a reaction or a precipitation engenders perfect change and purity. Our sugar may be clarified with the albumen in ox-blood, and yet be, absolutely and simply, white sugar. Our flour may be fermented and raised by the growth of a disgusting fungus, the yeast-plant, and yet become palatable and wholesome bread. Nature does likewise in the fields, when she converts her own decaying remains, vegetable mould, the excretions and even the dead bodies of all her children, to her sweet uses in making grass and grain and trees. The chemist but imitates Nature; extorting her secrets by analysis, and then using them in his syntheses, as far as his art can go. But it is when changes are made or substances added to deceive or defraud, that we speak of falsification or adulteration. In the earliest ages men lived as simply as the brutes around them. Milk, the raw flesh of animals, acorns, ground-nuts, and fruits, formed the only varieties of their diet. But the human stomach has not, even in a savage state, the digestive capacities of that of the lion or the ox. The one, seizing and swallowing his prey in crude masses, sinks into a lethargy of hours until the stomach has become ∅ the other, while laboring all day in taking the requisite amount of pasturage into his system, has still to devote the night to its rumination and solution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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