Henry Mackenzie on the place of our delicacies

    As a demonstration that delicacies are of the mind and not of nature, Henry Mackenzie offered this:

Our delicacies are fantastic; they are not in nature! that beggar walks over the sharpest of these stones barefooted, whilst I have lost the most delightful dream in the world from the smallest of them happening to get into my shoe.

    For a brief biography of Henry Mackenzie, click here.