Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, Speak to us of Eating. Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light. Let it then be an act of worship, and let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the. Innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in many. When you kill a beast say to him in your heart,.