“A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.” ReligiousFoodCoupleThousandHarmonyCookingFiftyCulinaryTemperSermonsPromotersMethodists Book:Cottage Economy Source: Cottage Economy
“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.” IfsMenYearsStillsWholeLastsReligiousCasesHe ManCoupleEasierCatPaidTwentiesMethodKingdomsFiftyPriestsEvidentEgyptVenerationPropagation Book:A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition