Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-31

never could become frleDOlV hsho-
oiate.: but an article in The London
Contemporary Review, by the eminent
Psychologist, DIR. Flinders Petrie, Is a
suggestion altogether at variance with
tue prevailing notion. DR.. Pe,rie lie
not a capnibaI. nor does he advocate
the practice, but he does apologize for
1t among the people where It prevails.
He thus olassifies the motives for oan-
Dibalism to be more for mental mo-
tives than for phyaical desiIe,:
ier cunt
Honor, kindness. future good, love ...' 20
TO obtain strength or magic results.... 10
AS a ceremony. or TO acquire position. 10
asa punishmen''''''' '''''' ''''''''''''''-'
From hunger o. need of foOd................. Is
From preference as food~.-...,.......... rs
40
E.u.,,u,. ,.s .ar,., n, ,,ts.
'o"o"'"s 'n'' 'o1'es ="
lions 20 to why various people ee'
human f,esh. covering the field Of
p.u
ASIA, Aus'rahH, South Americs' NY
nesia, North America and Africa.
7, tho frat thres continents the
higher motives OF honor ANU kihu-
ness prevail as an Incentive to
e., ,, no 4, Tho
nu" "'e" e''"s'
ides expressed by the Cucumns
nj aoutb Amerlcx tbat uit is
,,, 60. A.,
petter 10 Do ihsiue riepu 'ha"
to be swallowed up by the cold
aar.bu Aus, his iiIustrations. DIR.
fetfie remarkG
TIM. tho, o,,;,o or,rt FINN, Inn
moo Of hnnan Gashi ai,,niv "a ,ond in
the maiaritv n, ,rihas ,ha Mental desires
are rrn,aisn, - bonor ~ hanafit Inc
daoa 40 nh,ain ,h.ir rir,nas 10 acn,iro
aesa,,, " ,,ns,,,a,, ~ taa,I,, 10 nrasan,
,bair hannti,g ,ha Suryiyor.
R.fsrr,,o IN anc,eut Evvnt in n
ns,,od q, &c h,,b ,,v,,,z,,,on .sv,.
u,
II bt thai n civilinsS neopie. M abont
5000 b. O., who had exquisite haudicraft,
whose chiidren played with ehoioeiy
on widespread trade in The Moditer.
ranean-when 1t appeared that these
people i haSi'u nd ua' . ano hpau i,, IRON,
The bodies, no one would credit tho
notion; Every sort OF explanation was
sa,d aId pu ,he brnNen mar sn
Plies Vi r'ps anu Nei.ouio 'yiu p,"hiy
uom ny az ~ VI AsyPs hau
~. 'i ,,,.d 49,, anu NV
.nis yeai ~, IN. Ia one W the
srnIMss "nt h,'ii, poop'D I'm,
uvo. nro" d, ,Sa p.ranids Wv epse'' ,ha
inssVny VI nc Sta,,i., 49,, ~ ohSo tiie
Oman; 81 man; VINO carved s some Of the most
and labor on a great scale, who treasured
delicate moral feeling-that many OF
.1ese people aS a,,er uaiod .ne bones
all the fiesh. Why they did 10 we can
hardly doubt when welook at the ways
u ''h'i i"'0''
AFTER fsauing Df' Fesrie's apology
for eannipaiism, IL VIII not be
dimeut ist people 10 be-
hnvs, uesp'e MS ueniai, the
stories tnN wheh III herman Africa
he caused natives 10 Dc caught, Killed
anu eaten fof the amnsemsnt OF HIM
SSH anu associates. Az 10 the great
moral objection That cannibalism is
associated win murder, MI Pstfie
dispsnsss WIN any computations on
his part IN MS statement ths''
In nearly half the tribes prac.
Using 1t, more or less, it is the dead who
i io . are t;liad IL ia ,he e siol W S peo
aged, who, in low. state OF civilization,
and especially among nomsds, must
AA1 w ~ '"''
This last assertion has good deal OF
the ring OF lngersollism. W hich In effect
Ia that when man gets the idea
that life ia no. worth living he is iusGl-
fed in committing sniclde.
After all, 1t would not be much
stranger to find cannibsllsm reaorled
to by modern civilization under come
conditions than to have a rspreIo ntl-
tive OF high civilized lie apologize for
1t. In having cannibalism portrayed
for his own delectation, as alleged,
Dr. Petrie did no more than point the
extreme OF the present tendency in
amusement and sensationalism.
Civilized Rome had her bloody