At all events, they are intact and perfect,
and particularly the three largest. These seem to me, of their kind,
truly remarkable, and those in which the divinity of the day might
well incarnate himself. - Authentic and rather well kept cookbooks
inform us about the cost of the cult: We can more or less estimate how
much the sacred crocodiles consumed in ten years; we know their bills
of daily fare, their favorite morsels. Naturally, the god selected
the fattest victims, but his voracity was so great that he likewise
bolted down, and blindly, the lean ones, and in much greater number
than the fattest. Moreover, by virtue of his instincts, and an
unfailing effect of the situation, he ate his equals once or twice a
year, except when they succeeded in eating him. -- This cult
certainly is instructive, at least to historians and men of pure
science. If any believers in it still remain I do not aim to convert
them; one cannot argue with a devotee on matters of faith. This
volume, accordingly, like the others that have gone before it, is
written solely for amateurs of moral zoology, for naturalists of the
understanding, for seekers of truth, of texts, and of proofs -- for
these alone and not for the public, whose mind is made up and which
has its own opinion on the Revolution.
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