Headlong Hall

tending the operations in four scenes of action - namely, the cellar, the library, the picture-galle

tants, fiddles, flutes, tea, sugar, electrical machines, figs, spices, air-pumps, soda-water, chemical apparatus, eggs, French-horns, drawing books, palettes, oils and colours, bottled ale and porter, scenery for a private theatre, pickles and fish-sauce, patent lamps and chandeliers, barrels of oysters, sofas, chairs, tables, carpets, beds, looking-glasses, pictures, fruits and confections, nuts, oranges, lemons, packages of salt salmon, and jars of Portugal grapes. These, arriving with infinite rapidity, and in inexhaustible succession, had been deposited at random, as the convenience of the moment dictated,- sofas in the cellar, chandeliers in the kitchen, hampers of ale in the drawing-room, and fiddles and fish-sauce in the library. T

t, but of a delicious supply of new-laid eggs, and a magnificent round of beef; against which Mr Escot immediately pointed all the artillery of his eloquence, declaring the use of animal food, conjointly with that of fire, to be one of the principal causes of the present degeneracy of mankind. "The natural and original man," said he, "lived in the woods: the roots and fruits of the earth supplied his simple nutriment: he had few desires, and no diseases. But, when he began to sacrifice victims on the altar of superstition, to pursue the goat and the deer, and, by the pernicious invention of fire,

lly inhibit, the perfectibility of the species. But the use of fire was indispensably necessary, as ?schylus and Virgil expressly assert, to give being to the various a

be said on both sides; and, the question being in equipoise, I content myself with a mixed di

ally coincided, though they both ran down the theory

learing away a space at the top for the reception of a small piece of butter -"I am really astonished, gentlemen, at the very heterodox opini

that devours him

," said Do

prove it?" s

Gaster: "it is a point of doctrine

it may be said, by a parity of reasoning, that man was expressly made to be eaten by the tiger: but as wild oxen exist where there are

tery," said

ofoundly ignorant as the most dogmatical theologian possibly can be, I just wish to observe, that the pure and peaceful manners which Homer ascribes to the Lotophagi, and whic

p into a profound abomination of bullock's blood, sugar-baker's scum, and other unnatural ingredients of that rich composition of soil which had brought it to perfection 1, and insist on being planted in common earth, it would have all the advantage of natural theory on its side that the most strenuous advocate of the vegetable system could desire;

cot, "and the formation of the teeth, clearly

different opinion, and agree in discerning th

ide where doctors disagree; in the meantime, I conclud

r Gaster: "indeed, the loaves and fishes are typical of a mi

ight of the loaves and

ny point of sound doctrine

pathetic remonstrances of the reverend divine, who declared he had not

the woods could not transport himself over two hundred miles of forest, with as much facilit

? The wild man is happy in one spot, and there he remains: the civilised man is wretched in every place he happens to be in, and then c

way to Capel Cerig, the nearest point of the H