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  • The American Scholar

    A Capital Crime

    Dec 02, 2019 2 minutes
    —ROBERT WILSON

    I MAKE NO GREAT CLAIMS as a prognosticator, but I do feel certain that, unless manmade or natural disasters return us as a race to a state of prehistory, moral progress will soon stop us from doing two things. One is eating our fellow creatures

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