Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.