W. Somerset Maugham
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There is no doubt of it.
The unwelcome truth has long been suppressed by interested parties who find their account in playing syncophant to that self satisfied tyrant modern man.
But to the impartial philosopher it is as plain as the nose upon an elephant's face that our ancestors ate one another.
The custom of the Fiji Islanders.
Which is their only stock in trade, their only claim to notoriety, is a relic of barbarism.
But it is a relic of of our barbarism.
Man is naturally a carnivorous animal.
This none but green grocers will dispute.
That he was formerly less vegetarian in his diet than at present is clear from the fact that market gardening increases in the ratio of civilization.
So we may safely assume that at some remote period man subsisted upon an exclusively flesh diet.
Our uniform vanity has given us the human mind as the napla ultra of intelligence.
The human face and figure as the standard of beauty.
Of course we cannot deny to human fat and lean an equal superiority over beef, mutton, and pork.
It is plain that our meat eating ancestors would think in this way.
And being unrestrained by the mockish sentiment attendant.
Upon high civilization.
Would act habitually upon the obvious suggestion, a priori, therefore it is clear that we ate ourselves.
Philology is about the only thread which connects us with the prehistoric past.
By piecing out into the scattered remnants of language, we form a patchwork of wondrous design.
oblige us by considering the derivation of the word sarcophagus, and see if it be not suggestive of potted meats.
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