“The contemporary unfortunate three-brained beings in general who breed on your planet are, of course. Not aware, nor for causes already explained to you, have they in themselves the possibility of reflecting, that their remote ancestors of various past ages, who were much more normally formed into responsible beings, must have ‘racked their brains’, as is said, ‘not a little’ to discover means for minimizing the time spent on this inevitable BEING-NECESSITY of feeding themselves with products, and having found such apparently expedient methods, they every time, after a brief trial of them, eventually became convinced that these products, of whatever kind and however they might be preserved, always deteriorated with time and became worthless for their first-food; and hence they ceased to employ these methods in the process of their ordinary existence. BTG XLII