The HEART was always seen as the noblest of the INTERNAL organs as WELL as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at LEAST not on their own; it was EITHER the heart by itself or the whole lot together.
Read MoreA lot of things that we cannot BUY and SELL in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - HUMAN beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually SAYS that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
Read More