...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Marta L. Werner (2005). “Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843”, p.7, American Philosophical Society
