Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-09-03
were created.
Parliament of Beasts.

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vention of animals, and gorilla from
western Africa came in with his club
and pounded "Order'' Then be sat
down in chair Of twisted forest root.
The delegation Of birds came in and
took their position in the galleries of
the hills and the tree tops. And dele
cation Of reptiles came in, and they
took their position in tho pit of the val
ley. And the tiers of rocks were occu-
pied by the delegation of intermediate
animals, and there was great aquari-
um, and canal leading into it, through
which came the monsters of the deep
to join the great convention. And on
one table of rock there were four or five
primal germs under glass case, and in
cup on another table of rock there
was quantity of protoplasm. Then
this gorilla of tho African forest with
his club pounded again, "Order, order'
and then he cried out: ooh, you great
throng of beasts and birds and reptiles
and insects, have called you together
to propose that we move up into the
human race and be beasts no longer.
Too long already have we been hunted
and Gagged and harnessed. We shall
stand it no longer. At that speech the
whole convention broke out into roars
of enthusiasm like as though there
were many menageries being fed by
their keepers, and it did seem as if the
whole convention would march right
up and take possession Of the earth and
the human race. But an old lion arose,
his mane white with many years, and
he uttered his voice, and when that old
lion uttered his voice all the other
beasts OF tho forest were still, and he
said: peace, brothers and sisters of
the forest l think we have been placed
in the spheres for which we were in
tended think our Creator knew the
place that was good for US. - He could
proceed no further for the whole con-
vention broke out in an uproar like the
house of commons when the Irish ques-
ton comes up or the American congress
tho night of adjournment, and the rep
tiles Kissed with Indignation at the
leonine Gambetta, and the frogs croak-
ed their contempt, and the bears growl-
ed their contempt, and the panthers
snarled their disgust, and the insects
buzzed and buzzed with excitement, and,
though tho gorilla of tho African forest
with his club pounded, "Order, order, -
there was no order, and there was
thrusting out of adderine sting, and a
swinging of elephantine tusll, and
stroke of beak, and swing of claw, un-
til it seemed as if the convention would
be massacred.
Just at that moment at tho door of
this natural amphitheater Of the forest
tho curtain of the leaves lifted, and the
bolts and bars of the tree branches were
showed back, and there appeared Agas-
siz and Audubon and Silliman and
Moses. And Agassiz cried out: "Oh,
you beasts Of the forests, have studied
your ancestral records and found you
always have been beasts, you always
will be beasts. Be contented to be
beasts And Audubon aimed his gun
at baldheaded eagle, which dropped
from the gallery and as it dropped
struck serpent that was winding
around one of the pillars to get up
higher. And Silliman threw rock of
the tertiary formation at the mammals,
and Moses Numbered, every beast
after It's kind every bird after its kind,
every fish after It's kind. u And, 10, the
parliament of wild beasts was prorogued
and went home to their constituents,
and the bat flew out into tho night, and
the lizard SUNK under the rock, and
the gorilla went back to the jungle, and
hungry wolf passing out ate up the
primal germs, and clumsy buffalo up
set the protoplasm, and the lion went
to his lair, and the eagle went to his
eyrie, and the whale went to his palace
of crystal and coral, and there was
peace-peace in the air, peace i'll the
waters, peace in the fields. Man in his
place, the beasts of the earth i'll their
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BrutalIzing Tendencies.
But, my friends, evolution is not only
inidel and atheistic and absurd it is
brutalizing in its tendencies. If there
is anything in the world that will make
man bestial in his habits, it is the
idea that he was descended from the
beast. Why, according to the idea OF
these evolutionists, we are only su-
perior kind of cattle, sort of Alderney
among other herds. To be sure, we
browse on better pasture. and we have
better stall and better accommodations,
but then we are only Southdowns
among the great flocks of sheep. Born
Of a beast, to Gle like beast, for the
evolutionists have no idea of future
world. They say the mind is only su-
perior part of the body. They say our
thoughts are only molecular formation.
| They say when the body dies the whole
/ nature dies. The slab of the sepulcher
is not milestone on the journey up
ward, but wall shutting us into eter-
nal nothingness We all die alike-the
COW. the horse. the sheep, the man. the
reptile. Annihilation is the heaven of
the evolutionist. From such stenchful
and damnable doctrine turn away.
Compare that idea of your brigham
idea filled with the chatter Of apes and
the hiss of serpcnts and the ,croak of
frogs-to an idea in one or two stanzas
which quote from an old book of more
than Demosthenic or Homeric or Dan
tesuue power: What is man that thou
art mindful of him, and the son of man
that thou yisitest him? Thou hast made
him little lower than the angels and
hast crowned him with glory and hon
or Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of thy hand; thou hast
put all things under his feet. all sheep
and oxen-yea, and the beasts Of the
field, the fowl of the air and the fish Of
the sea and whatsoever passeth through
the paths of the seas. O Lord, our
Lord, how excellent is thy name in all
the earth. "
How do you like that originF The
lion the monarch Of the field, the eagle
the monarch of the air, behemoth the
monarch of the deep, but man monarch
of all. All, my friends, have to say
to you that am not so anxious to know
what was my origin as to know as to