He who reflects on the number of lives that have been sacrificed to sustain his own, should enquire by what the account has been balanced, and whether his life is become proportionately of more value by the exercise of virtue and by the superior happiness which he has communicated to [more] reasonable beings.


As quoted in The Ethics of Diet (1883)


He who reflects on the number of lives that have been sacrificed to sustain his own, should enquire by what the account has been balanced, and...

He who reflects on the number of lives that have been sacrificed to sustain his own, should enquire by what the account has been balanced, and...

He who reflects on the number of lives that have been sacrificed to sustain his own, should enquire by what the account has been balanced, and...

He who reflects on the number of lives that have been sacrificed to sustain his own, should enquire by what the account has been balanced, and...