MDMD Canine balism

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After that they roast him, eat him among them, and send some chops to
their absent friends. They do not do this, as some think, for
nourishment, as the
Scythians anciently did, but as a representation of an extreme revenge;
as will
appear by this: that having observed the Portuguese, who were in league
with their
enemies, to inflict another sort of death upon any of them they took
prisoners,
which was to set them up to the girdle in the earth, to shoot at the
remaining part till
it was stuck full of arrows, and then to hang them, they thought those
people of the
other world (as being men who had sown the knowledge of a great many
vices
among their neighbors, and who were much greater masters in all sorts of
mischief
than they) did not exercise this sort of revenge without a meaning, and
that it must
needs be more painful than theirs, they began to leave their old way,
and to follow
this. I am not sorry that we should here take notice of the barbarous
horror of so
cruel an action, but that, seeing so clearly into their faults, we
should be so blind to
our own. I conceive there is more barbarity in eating a man alive, than
when he is
dead; in tearing a body limb from limb by racks and torments, that is
yet in perfect
sense; in roasting it by degrees; in causing it to be bitten and worried
by dogs and
swine (as we have not only read, but lately seen, not among inveterate
and mortal
enemies, but among neighbors and fellow-citizens, and, which is worse,
under color
of piety and religion), than to roast and eat him after he is dead.

Michel de Montaigne

OF CANNIBALS (translated by Charles Cotton) 

I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of
children in the arms,
or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of
their fathers, is in
the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional
grievance; and,
therefore, whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of
making these
children sound, useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so
well of the
public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the
children of
professed beggars; it is of a much greater extent, and shall take in the
whole number
of infants at a certain age who are born of parents in effect as little
able to support
them as those who demand our charity in the streets.

As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years upon this
important
subject, and maturely weighed the several schemes of other projectors, I
have
always found them grossly mistaken in the computation. It is true, a
child just
dropped from its dam may be supported by her milk for a solar year, with
little
other nourishment; at most not above the value of 2s., which the mother
may
certainly get, or the value in scraps, by her lawful occupation of
begging; and it is
exactly at one year old that I propose to provide for them in such a
manner as
instead of being a charge upon their parents or the parish, or wanting
food and
raiment for the rest of their lives, they shall on the contrary
contribute to the
feeding, and partly to the clothing, of many thousands.

There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will
prevent those
voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their
bastard
children, alas! too frequent among us! sacrificing the poor innocent
babes I doubt
more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and
pity in the
most savage and inhuman breast.

Swift

A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Poor People
in                       Ireland From Being Aburden to Their Parents or
Country, and
For Making Them Beneficial to The Public

Let them eat flesh! 

The body of christ. Amen. 

The living loaf, for those  RC peasents, the living loaf! 

Early to bed and an early to rise, makes the Baker  a good provider, and
wise.