Real quick: first, I'm really sorry about all the blog failures in recent days. I'll do better. Second, I just wanted to make sure we caught this:
The same number of cattle, or even the same weight of cattle at the different periods when killed, will have consumed (if I may be allowed the expression) very different quantities of human subsistence.
-- ch. XVI
...becomes, in modern English:
The same number of cattle, or even the same weight of cattle at the different periods when killed, will have consumed (pun definitely intended) very different quantities of human subsistence.
-- ch. XVI
Okay, that is all.
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