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Question 110. Why is the same high priest forbid to
touch raw flesh?
Solution. Is it because custom makes them averse
enough to raw flesh? Or is it that the same reason that
makes them averse to meal doth also make them averse to
flesh; for it is neither a living creature nor dressed food?
Roasting or boiling, being an alteration and change, doth
change its form; but fresh and raw flesh offers not a pure
and unpolluted object to the eye, but such as is offensive
to the eye, and like that of a raw wound.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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