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Humanity’s Pillage of Earth and Sea

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 2.

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Humanity’s Pillage of Earth and Sea

By Pliny

How long shall we weary Heaven with petitions for superfluous luxuries, as though we had not at hand wherewith to feed ourselves? How long shall we fill our plains with huge cities? How long shall the people slave for us unnecessarily? How long shall the countless numbers of ships from every sea bring us provisions for the consumption of a single month? An ox is satisfied with the pasture of an acre or two; one wood suffices for several elephants. Man alone supports himself by the pillage of the whole earth and sea.—Pliny.