An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![c citaP. f. OF ‘MAND - oe. vorous quadrupeds, birds, and infects, is; in ges neral, limited to particular kinds: but the ra port of a gut before their unfortunate connection with Euro- peans, had a new word to invent in order to exprefs it. They called it kaboo, and pronounce’d the word in fo emphatick a manner that it was {carcely posfible to mistake their meaning. . The ka is thrown out with a {trong palatial ftroke of the tongue, in imitation of the found given by the ftroke of the flint againft the cover of the pan; and, with out-ftretch’d lips, a full mouth, and prolong’d found [like ourfelves] the Zoo fends forth the report. This language, at firft, appears to be of ‘uch a nature as to make it imposfible for an [a] European to acquire.” (Travels in Southern Africa, p. 160, €5%c.) Thefe obfervations are not lefs ingenious and profound, than folid and important; they, perhap, throw more light upon the fubjeft than any thing yet writen. Prejudice and bigotry may {wallow the abfurdity of fpeech or language being the gift of god; with- _ out haveing the fenfe to perceive that, in this cafe, all the hu- man fpecies, throughout the world, would as infalliblely have fpokeén one and the fame language as they utter articulate founds, eat, drink, fleep, and perform the other ufval avoca- tions of nature. It cannot be doubted, however, that the fub- je&t wil, one day, if not by himfelf, by fuch another mind and genius as thofe of this perfpicacious traveler, be, with matters of greater importance, fully elucidateéd, when tyranny . and fanaticifm fhal no longer unite to opprefs; enflave, and, as it were, ftultify, man; to “ lay their hand on the. {pring there is in fociety, and put a ftop to its motion.” <¢ When the firft mortals crawling rofe to birth, Speechleis and wretched, from their mother-earth, For caves and acorns, then the food of life, — With nails and fifts they held a blogdle(s ftrife:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
