Tennyson summed it up in the phrase: "Nature red in tooth and claw with Ravin;" and this was found convenient by Manchester manufacturers who wished to shut little children up for fourteen hours a day in cotton mills, and to harness women to drag cars in the coal mines, and to be told by the learned men of their colleges and the holy men of their churches that this was "the survival of the fittest," it was nature's way of securing the advancement of the race.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
But he kept on Ravin.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
Come, Ravin on Achaean flesh-spare none; Rage through the camp!
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles