"Slaughterhouse" Quotes from Famous Books
... each pair that mated in the twelfth century—surely these would be a "magna pars" in the sanguinary contest. When the imagination views these and similar figures, and places in contrast to this multitude of living beings, the limited supply of nourishment, the comparison of nature with a huge slaughterhouse seems tame enough. But reason, not imagination, as Darwin observes more than once, should be our guide in ... — At the Deathbed of Darwinism - A Series of Papers • Eberhard Dennert
... at a pig from a humane killer, struck the wall of a Merthyr Tydvil slaughterhouse, ricochetted and ... — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 16, 1919 • Various |