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#afterwords on The #Autobiography of #BenjaminFranklin
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> I believe I have omitted mentioning that, in my first voyage from | |
> Boston, being becalm'd off Block Island, our people set about catching | |
> cod, and hauled up a great many. Hitherto I had stuck to my resolution | |
> of not eating animal food, and on this occasion consider'd, with my | |
> master Tryon, the taking every fish as a kind of unprovoked murder, | |
> since none of them had, or ever could do us any injury that might | |
> justify the slaughter. All this seemed very reasonable. But I had | |
> formerly been a great lover of fish, and, when this came hot out of the | |
> frying-pan, it smelt admirably well. I balanc'd some time between | |
> principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were | |
> opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, | |
> "If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you." So I | |
> din'd upon cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people, | |
> returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. So | |
> convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables | |
> one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. | |
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License: Project Gutenberg License | |
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