, 1876-04-15


these features eliminated How did anything
''wors out the beast" and work in the man2''
The Greek in IIomer's time was 4 coarse
feeder. In prc.IIomeric time we may sup
pose he ate more cuarsely still. Suppose
that some one in his ancestral line @uncted,
and. little by little, left off muncling and
took his food in morsels. 1t would be easy
10 show chat such change in the way OF
taking food would induce anatomical chang.
cs about the mouth. {The speaker erased
his lion from the tip of the nose downward.
BY few chalk strokes he made another
mouth. A change from muuching to taking
the food in morscs would induce changes in
the nose. The nose would come out as a
feature A stroke q the crayon made nose
something like thatof Tweed--a nose which
cannot be found. A few strokes brought
out the chin, and the apimsl seemed trans.
formed into man. Ii the mind grows
and the body is plastic, the brain viii push
out the skull, and the axis Of the eyes will
at last be found in Il straight line.
Now the Greek as u savage Vas hideously
animal. As u philosopher he wss surpass-
ing heauti!nl. IN the transition he came out
completely anama:ized. Certain animal fea-
lures stuck ard remaned permanent, the
| high check bone in the Calmuck, the retreat.
| ing forth, ad and nd iancct mouth in the ne.
gro, and the santing eye in the Mongolisn.
! These features are simply surviyHls Of the
old animal features. 1t follows that the
chief race features are older than the race.
A black man was black before be was quite
! q man, and the white man was white before
he WAS a man II these divergent races met
long ngo in y single race, that race was pre-.
human. The Adam was only 1.-THE promise
and potency OF II man" To work out the
beast, !" feeding must give place to the
rrtinements Of eating. To work in the
man." all there is Of matter, and force, and
mind must be called into play. Tne tace
cannot Lecomc The human face divine y
unless surrounded by Objects of beauty.
Place IN ohicos offensive to the eye and nose
before the face OF child, and watch tie
oppression. leI that sxm.ssion become
rigid, and you have tie WpuiAiVe face Of sns
savage. IN the suburly Of Milwaukee the
speaker had SEN woman, ,-eelf. damned rs
no painted devil in II painted he'll could
damn, -harnessed to little caTt-tlle woman
drawing the swlll from atill to sty;
swill to be transformed into pig; pig to be
eaten by the woman and to bhr her more
strength to pull morc swill from more stills
! to more sizes.
here WAS DsNSATIoN IN TIE FLESH.
The lines OF that wUmans face were ami al
How could they be other than animal. Look
ut the men and women whose nostrils habit.
uully breathe the stencil, and whose eyes
hahitually see the rcpulsige sights in the sums
Of our great cities. Their faces are mirror
!
OF what they see and smell The gospel the
speaker was setting forth tclls us to bcautity
our homes. our halls, our churches, our parks
and our schoOl.houses In the making of
II man more of nature is requirerl than that
which ministers tO tho face. Man is first Of
all hunter. And while Il hunter le ought
like Nimrod, 20 be a mighty hunter before
the Lord. His eye should he matched by an
eye ~ keen, his ear by an ear rs quick, his
hand by paw rs s'roug. For this is the
period Of hnay.makine. Look now over the
islands and continents. klands are net the
abode nf strong, large, or ierocious animals.
Turn ia Australia. In That great hnd there
is not aR animal which. unprovoked, would
hurt man. Look ut North America. Here
man was matched against mastodon, buffil.
loes, the moose, the stag, the wolf. In Africa
he was matched against tigers lions, elcpla
nts. He has come through thousands Of
years Of war against animals weak and timid
and he is the punicst ,nnst ricke,y, most mis-
rrahle savage on theearth Nov look nt the
tiger-fghiing negro. He has come through
thousands Of years Of war against the might.
est beasts that contend with man. aud he is
the strongest. the brawniest, the Bighicst
savage on earth
From hunter, man must become
shepherd. The hunter notes the habits Of
animals Some he sees are Mltary, Others
greg ,rions Ele insinn,es himself in tho
place of the leader and the instinct being
diverted toward him. the animal il dumesti-
Gated. The man becomes shepherd anil a
man of leisure. Lazily watching his iocks
he begins to take note Of things. He con.
siders tbs lillies Of the field. how they eFow.
He considers the stars whence they came.
He ought TO pass many years in shepherd
life, for this is the preliminary period OF
mind making This is the period when
habits OF ntrospectiun nre formed
Look again over the world In the
islands Of The sea there was no animal which
man could sul'luc to his will. In Australia
there WINS no animal man could teach to own
his kingship an hear his burdens. In North
America there had been animals, hors. like,