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Updated: July 11, 2025
They suggest that through the ages we have been growing more and more humane, that is to say, that one after another, groups or sections of beings, slaves, children, women, cows, or what not, have been gradually admitted to mercy or to justice. As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one.
He reported the results before a learned scientific body, but his colleagues were so scandalized that the matter was hushed up. The seed had been sown, however. A younger man took up the idea, and made researches in the South Seas substantiating the claim that those races which took to anthropophagy had invariably supplanted the others.
As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one. It is much more likely that modern men will eat human flesh out of affectation than that primitive man ever ate it out of ignorance. I think it wrong to sit on a man. Soon, I shall think it wrong to sit on a horse. That is the drive of the argument.
Bourke also cites instances in which human ordure was eaten by East Indian fanatics. Numerous authorities are quoted by Bourke to prove the alleged use of ordure in food by the ancient Israelites. Probably the most revolting of all the perverted tastes is that for human flesh. This is called anthropophagy or cannibalism, and is a time-honored custom among some of the tribes of Africa.
When weakened by the attacks of their Wakamba neighbours, they began to roast and eat slices from the bodies of the slain in presence of the foe. The latter, as often happens amongst barbarians, and even amongst civilized men, could dare to die, but were unable to face the horrors of becoming food after death: the great Cortez knew this feeling when he made his soldiers pretend anthropophagy.
Oh, centuries of intellectual riot and rebellious free thought are yet before us, and their science will end by anthropophagy, for having begun to build their Babylonian tower without our help they will have to end by anthropophagy.
And how could you possibly justify trying me on Cassylia for actions that occurred on this planet that aren't crimes here? That's like taking a cannibal away from his tribe and executing him for anthropophagy." "What would be wrong with that? The eating of human flesh is a crime so loathsome I shudder to think of it. Of course a man who does that must be executed."
If the Caribs of the Orinoco, since the commencement of the sixteenth century, have differed in their manners from those of the West India Islands; if they are unjustly accused of anthropophagy; it is difficult to attribute this difference to any superiority of their social state.
Anthropophagy without apparent cause was not unknown in Southern Africa. Mr. But with these people it was totally different, for they were inhabiting a fine agricultural tract of country, which also abounded in game.
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