The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-10-06
What To Do With The Darkey.
An Intricate Question Solved
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The theory of evolution has the
vast advantage that it can be an
Piled not merely to explain the or.
lgln of man, but to teach us in
what way We should live. Thus a
recent scientific person deduced
from the principles of evolution a
philosophy of diet. He showed
that all living beings thriyed best
when feeding on that which is i'm
mediately below them in the scale
of development, and that food is
difficult of assimilation for man in
proportion to its distance below
him in the same scale. In accord
ance with this theory we find that
the earth feeds on gases; that
fruits and cereals feed on the
earth; that the lower animals feed
ON fruits and cereals and on other
animals. Man should therefore
feed chiefly upon the lever ami.
mails, and should, if possible, con-
fine himself to the animals nearest
to him in the scale of develop.
ment. The anthropoid ape is
probably the best sort of food
that is at present attainable, but
there can be no doubt that were
civilized man to eat a lower type
of man the former would attain
the highest possible physical dc.
velopment. The cannibal races
are confessedly the strongest and
healthiest of savages. Hitherto
most travellers have imagined that
the fact that certain savages are
strong and fierce pr9disposes
them to cannibalism, but they
have evidently confounded canse
and effect. 1t was because the
Caribs were cannibals, accustom-
ed to o scientific diet, that they
were the terror Of the Spaniard,
and the physical strength of the
Fiiians, the Faus, and the Battas
is due to their canibalism.
If we wish to cat in a truly sci.
entific way we must, in accordance
with sacred teachings Of evolu-
ton, become cannibals and feed
upon men who are u little below
us in the scale of development.
The Frenchman who adopts this
view will, of course, fatten
ON large Germans, and the En-
glishman will reduce the surplus
population Of India by bringing il
to the oven and the spit. The
Irish landlords will solve the Irish
problem by eating their tenants
and the tables of the whole civil
lied world will groan under the
weight of cheap Cinnamon, on ice
or canned Africans and Polyne
slams. The shade of Nautilus will
chuekle with delight over the re
duction of population which can
nibalism will cause, and the civil
lzed races will improve physically
not merely because they eat sci
entifically, but because they vii
naturally deyour all weak and i'm
perfect children and thus secure
the survival of the fittest only.
1t does not appear to have oc
Cured to the author of this inge
NOUS philosophy of diet that the
splendid physical condition of th'
missionary-fed Fijian involves thu
assumption that tho missionary ii
lower in the scale Of development
than is the Fijian. If this is tru'
the missionary is the proper die
for the Fijian, but if it.is not true
then the missionary should GA
the Fijian. 1t would be well wer'
The latter practice to be adopted
for short time merely as an ex
pertinent. 1t might result in great
ly improving the physical condi
tion of missionaries, and woul'
make them, in a measure self sup
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