The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-04
4 CHANCE lost.
Practical Opinions as to the Divinity of
Man Allowed to Escape.

Man Allowed to Escape.
(From the New York sun
1t was Friday night in Stuyvesant
square A cab drove up TO where the
man and the woman were waiting in
the deep shadow along the southern
| side of the park and a second man
jumped out. The man waiting in the
shadow came forward to meet him.
rs that you, Thompson?" he asked,
The woman bent forward eagerly to lis
ten. did you find out snything?"
Hes gone there was the reply.
It'll be all right tonight, sure No
slip-up this time. You'll be hero when
/ get back"
Just then the wind gave touch of its
quality,
"Ugh!" said the man who was wait
| ing; and turning to his companion,
1--WE can't stay here; he. might be an
| hour or more
II don't care" returned the woman.
| II only want to be through with it.
| NO." decided the man; I'VE can't
stand it here / know where. Down
| the street, there, where you see the
lamp outside. Looks like q church.
That's where the philosophers talk,
We can stay here till 1o:45"
The cab sped away and the man and
the woman entered the building. That
was how they came to hear the philos-
| ophers talk.
| The philosophers settle an important
| point once week This time they
We're deciding whether or not mans ma
| ture was divine They were hard at 1t
/ when the couple entered,
| A woman philosopher was speaking.
Once she was a Socialist, men said, but
row she had sacrificed her shape and a
\ French woman's instinct of taste in
! dress upon the altar of esoteric Bud
! dhism. Dress reform carried out to its
philosophical conclusions suggested
meal bhgs in this case.
Man is divine, she said in conclu
sion
Men are beasts said the woman
who was waiting, to her companion.
A long string of philosophers sue
! ceeded one another upon the platform.
each settling the question A boy phi
! losopher trampled the divinity of man
under his feet and spurned it. Mans
! higher nature was a myth, he said and
man was vile. TO prove it he told how
he himself had been turned out of home
and renowned by father and mother,
sister and brother.
He is frank" said the man Who was
waiting.
"TIe knows men!" said the woman.
A pantheistic philosopher spoke. He
said that he was part of everything
| and all ideas were part of his own. So
his ideas got all jumbled up, and he had
to ask the audience what he was talk
ing about The audience told him.
wonderful cried the man who was
waiting; "they are actually listening"
Should he not be back by this time?"
asked the woman, looking toward the
! door
An East Indian philosopher spoke.
He was sleek, fat and oily. His melli-
fluous sentences fell upon the ears Of
the audience sleek, fat and oily Per-
haps they were meaningless sentences.
but they seemed soothing and comfort
| ing.
HE is a great favorite with women
who attend his lectures" whispered the
man who was waiting.
His voice is soft and low" said the
woman; soft and low and false like
his
The talk of the philosophers flowed
on at high pressure, with never jog.
The wan president sat with his head
leaning against the wall, never moving
save to choke one philosopher off end
turn another on. The man who was
waiting looked at the door and then at
his watch
1T is row 1914" he said, "and he
| isn't back yeti"
The philosopher on the platform
talked faster than ever. The audience
began pulling itself together. At
1O:441s the door flew open. and the man
of the cab darted in, WHISPERED word
to the man who was waiting, ard dart
ed out again with the pair At 1915
the philosopher suddenly threw up bis
arms in despair IN the middle Of SEN
tence as the audience rose in a body
and tore out into the street. The Iues-
ton of the divinity of man was settled
and the oppos tun Of the philosophers
to talk was past for the week.
Two philosophers fingered on the
| sidewalk under a lamppost.
That was a good meeting" said one
| of them. Very good, indeed But We
are not sufficiently practical"
How so?" asked the other.
1--WE should introduce experiences
| from practical life into our discussions
| They would be of value. We might
have had some practical opinions of the
| divinity of man tonight for instance
| You saw that man and woman sitting
| in front of you? And that other man
who rushed in after them? They might
have told us something"
who were they?"
THE man was Jones, the divorce
| lawyer, and the woman was probably
one of his clients. The other man was a
private detective. What was their bus
/ mess there? Well, you can guess what
! the news was that they were waiting
/ for there and that the detective came
/ in such a hurry to tell them. Good
| night"