The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-01-21


the Hapsbure of 4 race, the founder of
type, and not evolved from 4 lower
type, was lowered with this love of off
spring in high degree, and grew to
possess an intelligence corresponding
with the wealth Of this endowment.
We find those lower animals among
whom parental love is the ruling pas
sion more intelligent than those in
whom the trait is not SO well marked;
and, confounding cause with effect, we
consider that they love more because
they are III pre intelligent But the re-
verse is the truth; they are more in
telligent because of this faculty of low.
ing: it has acted as a constant stimulus
to their mental powers.
Unfortunately las it doubtless seemed
to the primitive man (poor child to
whom nature was so harsh a step
mother); fortunately, as we see it now
in the light of the progress in all use
full arts due to this fact, his young was
neither furred or feathercd. His love
of his offspring led to the devising of
clothing. and out of the skin jacket of
the cavc-child has been cyo.vcd all the
wonders of the modern loom.
The mothers harshness was but in
seeming: the earth has yielded the
fbrous plant, the sheep its tleecy COW
ering, and the insect world has spun
its silken web, that the young of the
hHman family might he softly and
warmly clad.
Man was poorly fitted to grapple
with the hard problems of existence in
an age when the mighty forces of ma
turc expressed themselves in the man.
moth creations Of which the rock strata
of prehistoric ages bear record. The
animals around him were to be feared
and avoided. if carnivorous; if rumi-
nants. to be sought as food, if human
strength and cunning could compass
their destruction. Man had limited
store of harsh cries. cultural sounds,
and uncouth gestures,-primarily no
greater store than was possessed by
other deniZenS of the wild.
This primitive speech was formed
largely from the cries of other animals
and the sounds OF nature. There were
notes of warning, of defiance, of fear
These harsh sounds were softened to
tenderness when parental feeling was
awakened, and were supplemented by
other sounds more agreeable to the
inely-tempered ear Of inEancy-imita-
tions of birtlcooings and the softer
harmOnies ofnaturc.
The young Of the human family, de-
pendents Of parental love and care
through the period of individual in
| fancy, were also to be guarded from
the perils that besct the infancy of the
race And these perils were many,
for, being carnivorols without the
strength, agility, or unreasoning cour-
age of the carnivora, this primal saw
age was the Ishmacl of the wild against
whom every paw was raised. His
young were to be fed with the prizes
of his bow and spear, or of that W 7apon
that antedated all others, the strong
right hand, and clothed in the furry
mantles of other citizens of the wood.
When the son attained to manly
strength, he became possessed also of
the fathers limited vocabulary, supple
menting it doubtless with such sounds
as his individual experiences in and
with his environments suggested.
BY the time the family had grown
into the tribe of three or four genera
tions, we can readily suppose them to
have become possessed of a number of
sounds suggesting certain definite
ideas. Soon. for convenience, the diff
ferent members OF eac. tribe received
names derived from the animal world
around them. or from some phases or
objects Of nature. thus adding to the
| common vocabulary!
Parental love constantly struggling
for expression, language grew by slow
accretion. Had primitive man mated
for 4 season as brief rs obtains with
most bipeds, speech had never grown
| beyond the rudimcntary stage. Con-
with the primal savage, for love of OF
spring. strongest and most unselfish of
passions, made coniugal constancy nat
ural, because with it was involved the
preservation OF the race The commu-
nifty Of interests resulting therefrom
made possible that interchange Of ideas
so necessary with those whose whole
life tends to 4 common centre. 1t
awakened feeling; and feeling awakened
, thought, the parent and predecessor of
expression. Speech having been
achieved, through the struggles of this
strong, but tender, passion, and having
within it the elements OF growth, all
things became possible. 1t was 4
! medium of mental exchange by which
enterprises beyond the power OF the
individual might be prosecuted, and
/ without it concerted action was an i'm
possibility. The impous builders of
! Shinar learned this lesson; midway
! halted tha soaring walls when those
who wrought thereon could no longer