id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt thoreau-walden_012-1854 thoreau thoreau-walden_012-1854 1854 .txt text/plain 4249 190 74 Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. cache/thoreau-walden_012-1854.txt txt/thoreau-walden_012-1854.txt