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“It is significant that the cultivator associates with a murder the essentially peaceful
labor that insures his existence, whereas in societies of hunters the responsibility for slaughter is attributed to another, to a ‘stranger.’ … The food plant is not ‘given’ in the world, as the animal is. It is the result of a primitive dramatic event.”