As I came ring of fish,
trailing my pole, it being noe dark, I caught a glimpse of a
a strahrill of
savage deligrongly tempted to seize and devour him
ra t I wildness which he
represented. Once or the pond, I
found myself ranging tarved h a
strange abando, seeking some kind of venison w
devour, and no morsel could oo savage for me. the
ses ably familiar. I found in
myself, and still find, an instinct toward a is
named, spiritual life, as do most men, and anotoward a
primitive rank and savage one, and I revereh. I love
t less ture t
are in fisill ree to me. I like sometimes to take
rank he animals do. Perhaps
I o t and to ing, we young, my
closest acquaintance ure. troduce us to and
detain us in sery t age, we should
tle acquaintance. Fisers, woodchoppers, and
othe fields and woods, in a peculiar
sense a part of Nature ten in a more favorable
mood for ervals of ts, than
ps even, ion. She
is not afraid to ex o traveller on the
prairie is naturally a er, on ters of the Missouri
and bia a trapper, and at t. Mary a fisherman.
raveller learns t sed-he
y. e are most ied when sce
reports ically or instinctively,
for t alone is a true y, or at of human experience.
take ts,
because so many public
play so many games as the more
primitive but solitary amusements of ing, fishe like
yet given place to t every New England
boy among my poraries she
ages of ten and fourteen; and ing and fishing grounds were
not limited, like t were
more boundless even t
ofteay to play on t already a ge
is taking place, o to an increased y, but to an
increased scarcity of game, for perer is test
friend of ted, not excepting ty.
Moreover, imes to add fiso my
fare for variety. I ually fishe same kind of
y t t fisever y I might
jure up against it itious, and ed my
phan my feelings. I speak of fishing only now, for
I differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I
to t t I am less I did
not perceive t my feelings pity
t. As for fowling, during
t years t I carried a gun my excuse I was
studying ornit only ne I
fess t I am noo t there is a finer way of
studying ornit requires so much closer
attention to ts of t, if for t reason only,
I o omit t notanding the
obje on ty, I am pelled to doubt if
equally valuable sports are ever substituted for these; and when
some of my friends ther
t t, I
it parts of my education -- make ters,
tsmen only at first, if possible, migers at last,
so t t find game large enoughis or
aable wilderness -- ers as well as fishus
far I am of the opinion of Chaucers nun, who
"yave not of text a pulled hen
t sait ers ben not ;
tory of the race,
;best men," as them.
e ot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more
ion ed. this was my
ans to t on t,
trusting t tgro. No the
tless age of boyonly murder any creature which
s life by te s
extremity cries like a c my
sympat alins.
Suest trodu to t, and
t inal part of first as a
er and fisil at last, if ter
life in inguiss, as a poet or
naturalist it may be, and leaves the
mass of meill and al. In some
tries a ing parson is no unon sig
make a good s is far from being the Good Shepherd.
I o sider t t,
except ing, or the like business, which ever
to my knoai alden Pond for a whole half-day any of
my felloizens, h
just one exception,
time, u a long
string of fisunity of seeing the pond
all t go times before the
sediment of fiso ttom and leave their purpose
pure; but no doubt such a clarifying process would be going on all
tly remember the pond,
for t a-fis nohey are
too old and digo go a-fis no more
forever. Yet even t to go to last. If the
legislature regards it, it is culate the number of
o be used t t the hook of
o angle for tself, impaling the
legislature for a bait. ties, the
embryo man passes ter stage of development.
I edly, of late years, t I ot fish
falling a little in self-respect. I ried it again and
again. I it, and, like many of my felloain
instinct for it, o time, but always when I
it er if I fished.
I t I do not mistake. It is a faint intimatio so are
t streaks of m. tionably tinct
in me io h every
year I am less a fis more y or even
present I am no fis all. But I see t if I
o live io bee a
fiser in ear. Beside, thing
essentially un about t and all fleso
see ws
so muco idy and respectable appearance eaco keep
t and free from all ill odors and sights. having been
my ocleman for
whe dishes were served up, I speak from an unusually
plete experieical obje to animal food in my
case s unness; and besides, w and ed
and cooked aen my fis to have fed me
essentially. It and unnecessary, and ore
t came to. A little bread or a featoes would have done
as rouble and filth. Like many of my
poraries, I had rarely for many years used animal food, or
tea, or coffee, etot so mucs which I
raced to t agreeable to my
imagination. to animal food is not t of
experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live
lohough I never did so, I
far enougo please my imagination. I believe t every man
o preserve ic faculties
in t dition icularly ined to abstain from
animal food, and from muc is a signifit
fact, stated by entomologists -- I find it in Kirby and Spence --
t "some is in t state, th
ans of feeding, make no use of t;; and t do;a
general rule, t almost all is in tate eat much less
t of larvae. terpillar wransformed
into a butterfly ... and ttonous maggot w;
tent two of
liquid. tterfly still
represents tidbit s his
iivorous fate. tate;
and tions in t dition, nations fancy
or imagination, ray them.
It is o provide and cook so simple and a diet as
offend tion; but to be fed
table.
Yet pers eaten temperately need not
make us asites, nor interrupt t
pursuits. But put ara ent into your dis will
poison you. It is not o live by rich cookery.
Most men heir own hands
precisely sucable food, as is
every day prepared for t till therwise
civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men
and ainly suggests
may be vain to ask be reciled to
fles. I am satisfied t it is not. Is it not a reproach
t man is a ivorous animal? true, he and does live, in a
great measure, by preying on ot this is a miserable
s, or slaughtering
lambs, may learn -- and or of his
race and
ice may be, I
t it is a part of tiny of ts gradual
improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage
tribes off eating eacact
he more civilized.
If one listens to test but stant suggestions of his
genius, rue, to remes, or
even insanity, it may lead t way, as he grows more
resolute and faitest assured
obje h prevail over
ts and s of mankind. No man ever followed his
genius till it misled were bodily weakness,
yet per to be
regretted, for ty to higher principles.
If t are suc you greet th joy, and
life emits a fragrance like flo-sted herbs, is more
elastic, more starry, more immortal -- t is your success. All
nature is your gratulation, and you arily to
bless yourself. test gains and values are fart from
being appreciated. e easily e to doubt if t. e soon
fet t reality. Pers most
astounding and most real are never unicated by man to man. the
true of my daily life is someangible and
indescribable as tints of m or evening. It is a little
star-dust caug of tched.
Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could
sometimes eat a fried rat were necessary.
I am glad to er so long, for t I
prefer tural sky to an opium-eaters heaven. I would fain
keep sober ale degrees of drunkenness. I
believe t er is t so
noble a liquor; and th a
cup of ea! Ah, how
loed by them! Even music may be
intoxig. Sucly sligroyed Greed
Rome, and roy England and America. Of all ebriosity, who
does not prefer to be intoxicated by thes? I have
found it to be t serious obje to coarse labors long
ti to eat and drink coarsely also.
But to tell trut present somew less
particular in ts. I carry less religion to table,
ask no blessing; not because I am , I am
obliged to fess, because, is to be regretted,
. Perhese
questions are eained only in yout believe of poetry.
My practice is "now; my opinion is heless I am far
frarding myself as one of to whe
Ved refers "rue faithe
Om Supreme Being may eat all t exists," t is, is not
bound to inquire w is ; and even in
t is to be observed, as a ator has
remarked, t t limits to "time of
distress."
sometimes derived an inexpressible satisfa from
ite o
t I oal perception to the only gross sense of
taste, t I e, t some
berries he
soul not being mistress of ; says tseu, "one looks,
and one does not see; one listens, and one does not s,
and one does not kno; inguishe
true savor of ton;
ot be otan may go to h
as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to urtle. Not t
food o t tite
is eaten. It is y nor tity,
but tion to sensual savors;
a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but
food for t possess us. If ter aste for
mud-turtles, muskrats, and otidbits, the fine lady
indulges a taste for jelly made of a calfs foot, or for sardines
from over to the mill-pond, she
to . they, how you and I,
live tly life, eating and drinking.
Our lingly moral. there is never an
instants truce betue and vice. Goodness is the only
iment t never fails. In the harp which
trembles round t is ting on thrills
us. travelling patterer for the Universes
Insuranpany, reending its latle goodness is
all t t last grows
indifferent, t indifferent, but are
forever on t sensitive. Listen to every zephyr
for some reproof, for it is surely tunate who
does not . e ot t or move a stop but the
sfixes us. Many an irksome noise, go a long way
off, is satire on the meanness of our
lives.
e are scious of an animal in us, wion
as our ure slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and
per be whe worms which, even in
life and hdraw from
it, but never ature. I fear t it may enjoy a certain
s o not pure. ther day
I picked up te and souh and
tusks, th and vigor
distinct from tual. ture succeeded by other means
temperand purity. "t in we
beasts," says Mencius, "is a the on
very soon; superior men preserve it carefully." ho
kno of life if aio purity?
If I kneeacy I o seek
;A and over our passions, and over ternal
senses of ts, are declared by to be
indispensable in tion to God." Yet t
for time pervade and trol every member and fun of
transmute sensuality
into purity aion. tive energy, which, when we are
loose, dissipates and makes us un,
invigorates and inspires us. City is the fl of man; and
w are called Genius,
various fruits oo God whe
cy is open. By turns our purity inspires and our
impurity casts us dohe
animal is dying out in he divine being
establis has cause for shame on
at of tisure to which he is allied. I
fear t he
divine allied to beasts, tures of appetite, and t, to
some extent, our very life is our disgrace.--
"h due place assigned
to s and disafforested his mind!
. . . . . . .
use t, ,
And is not ass o all t!
Else man not only is the herd of swine,
But oo which did ine
to a ;
All sensuality is o takes many forms; all purity is
one. It is t, or drink, or co, or
sleep sensually. t one appetite, and o see
a person do any one of to kno
and nor sit y. he
reptile is attacked at one mout
anote, you must be temperate. is
city? e? know
it. e ue, but is. e
speak ably to tion
e y; from sloty. In the
student sensuality is a sluggis of mind. An un person
is universally a slots by a stove, whe sun
srate, igued. If you
ly, t
be at ing a stable. Nature is o be overe, but she
must be overe. avails it t you are , if you are
not purer then, if you deny yourself no more, if you are
not mious? I knoems ioeemed
s fill th shame, and provoke
o o tes
merely.
I ate to say t it is not because of the
subject -- I care not because I
ot speak of t betraying my impurity. e discourse
freely sy, and are silent about
anot speak simply of the
necessary funs of ure. In earlier ages, in some
tries, every fun ly spoken of and regulated by
laoo trivial for the hindoo lawgiver, however
offe may be to modern taste. eaco eat, drink,
co, void excrement and urine, and ting w is
mean, and does not falsely excuse hings
trifles.
Every man is temple, called o the
god er a style purely off by
ead. e are all sculptors and painters, and
our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness
begins at oo refine a maures, any meanness or
sensuality to imbrute them.
Jo at ember evening, after a hard
days work, ill running on his labor more or less.
doo re-create ellectual man. It
her cool evening, and some of his neighbors were
appre. atteo train of his
ts long
sound ill of
t t running in his
riving it against his
it ed tle. It he
scurf of antly s tes
of te came o of a different sphere from
t ed ain faculties which
slumbered in ly did areet, and the
village, and tate in wo him --
ay his mean moiling life, when a
glorious existence is possible for you? tars twinkle
over ot o e out of this
dition and actually migrate t hink of
o practise some y, to let o his
body and redeem it, and treat .
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