To Define the Crime of Murder, Provide Penalty Therefor, and to Abolish the Punishment of Death

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Excerpt from To Define the Crime of Murder, Provide Penalty Therefor, and to Abolish the Punishment of Death: Speech of Gen. Newton Martin Curtis, of New York, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, June 9, 1892 The antediluvians subsisted on an exclusively vegetable diet. To Noah God said: And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, into your hands are they delivered. Every moving 'thing that liveth shall be meat for you, even as the green herb have I given you all things. But ¿esh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. In authorizing Noah and his descendants to partake of meat, God coupled with it the declaration of the sacredness of life, that blood, its symbol, they should not eat. Some learned men have construed the sixth verse as a prohibition against cannibalism, and not a punishment for homicidal crime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.