AS TO OURSELVES 



Thus, beginning with the sense of Taste, 

 the lowest of human senses, since its chief 

 function is to serve bodily nutrition, we 

 find illustrated even here that generic dis- 

 satisfaction in man with narrow limita- 

 tions. This impatience with limitations is 

 our first private information about man, 

 and we are never going to hear the last 

 of it. For though the ass knoweth his 

 master's crib and is satisfied with its 

 healthy but monotonous diet, at a man's 

 banquet, where his range of taste is illus- 

 trated, the air above, the earth beneath, 

 and the waters under the earth are all 

 called upon to furnish things for that 

 table. The commerce of the world draws 

 largely upon the products of every clime 

 and region of the globe to supply what 

 men like to taste. He would be well 

 versed in geography who could tell where 

 every article came from on the table of 

 one of our ordinary mechanics. But the 

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