“Tis only Man, mischievous Man, that can make Death a Sport. Nature taught your Stomach to crave nothing but Vegetables; but your violent Fondness to change, and greater Eagerness after Novelties, have prompted you to the Destruction of Animals without Justice or Necessity, perverted your Nature and warp'd your Appetites which way soever your Pride or Luxury have call'd them.”

— Bernard Mandeville, book The Fable of the Bees

Remark P, pp. 193-4
The Fable of the Bees (1714)

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Anglo-Dutch writer and physician 1670–1733

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