'Odd's Snails'—Antiquated Oaths
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Physiology, Nutrition, Animal Behaviour, Human Development |
Discusses an extract from an article in Galgnani's Messenger describing the huge quantities of snails eaten by Parisians. Noting that 'it is now understood that human beings acquire a certain portion of the nature of that on which they feed', anticipates the ways in which 'Parisian nature will assimilate itself to that of the snail'. |
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