THE HOG AND THE DEER ! A SOCIAL PROBLEM. 247 
of both, together with the quality of the still-slop food, being incompatible 
with the health of either, and filling their flesh with foul abscesses or drop- 
sical infiltrations. This is the consummation painfully and laboriously at- 
tained by the destruction of immense quantities of fine timber along with 
its native tenantry, and drawing every year by culture from the soil, crops 
which are not in any form to be returned to it, but to be turned in the most 
wasteful manner into two kinds of poison — a solid and a fluid— both equal- 
ly calculated to deteriorate the organisms which admit them. 
We might have venison, a much finer and perfectly wholesome meat, in 
the greatest abundance ; we might have the trouble of cultivating no more 
land than is needed for our supplies of food and clothing ; we might save 
our valuable timber, the growth of centuries ; we might preserve one of 
the most joyous and invigorating pastimes, and one not too refined for the 
genius of civilization, in the chase. But in order to do all this we should 
necessarily advocate the principles of truth and loyalty represented by the 
deer, instead of those of narrow selfish greed, and immolation of the spirit- 
ual to the material principle, represented by the hog. We should, be- 
sides, in preserving the deer, deviate from the principle of waste, so uni- 
versal and inherent in the civilized mechanism. 
We should not waste our timber, nor our game, nor our labor, nor the 
resources of our soil. We should not have been able, by the culture of 
less than a century, to convert Eastern Virginia, for instance, into bar- 
rens, nor to operate systematically against that primordial law of the 
wealth of nations, which requires a quid pro quo to the soil for all that is 
abstracted from it, and which renders true farming a perfect circuit of 
forces and benefits between the Sun and Earth, and man ; so that the re- 
fuse of one year becomes the fertilizing stamina of the next. 
We see that all the principles, animals, and characters of harmony be- 
long together, and imply each other, and that the same holds, on the con- 
trary, of civilization. 
Eor Harmony, Passional Analogy requires all the forms of truth, de- 
light, economy, and profit ; for civilization, all the forms of falsehood, mis- 
ery, waste, and deterioration. 
The entrance into our river towns is commonly announced by a hog-pen 
and a distillery, speaking emblems of this society; whose nauseating stench 
and disgusting appearance, connected with their hideous noises, form a per- 
fect analogical picture of the changes which human nature undergoes in be- 
coming civilized, and the horrible depravity of the passions in its false and 
discordant social relations. How perfectly upside down they are, may be 
well inferred from the fact that the hog, natural scavenger and emblem of 
the economist in the superlative degree, is made the central feature of mis- 
chievous waste in the spoliation of the soil, and in the vitiation of the human 
body by diseased pork and whiskey. 
Gentlemen hunters and farmers,— you in whom natural instinct still 
