The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-01-04
THE ANIMAL IN MAN.
WHICH OF THE SPECIES CONTROLS
YOUR SPlRIT2

Or Maynap fOu Are, as the Writer
of This Article IntImates That an
Analysis May Prove, a Whole Mem
agerie In Yourself.
OF all animals upon earth man came
last. All of earth's animal creations are
bound up in man. AS to the first state
ment there is no difference of opinion.
The Bible and Darwin agree that man
was created last of all the animals
Very superficial observation will con-
vince you that man contains in his men
tai make up all of the inferior" animals,
or at least great many of them. You,
Mr.. Jones or Mr.. Smith, who read this
are in your single self a sort of synthesis
of the entire animal creation. If you
could be divided into your component
animal parts. there would be menugerie
in your house, and you, Smith or Jones,
would be missing. That thing we call Il
soul would be floating around, impalpa-
BILE, looking for its house to live in.
OF course you can see the animal make
up in your neighbor more readily than
in yourself.
How do men describe each other2 Do
they not speak as follows and mean ex-
actly what they say: "He is as sly as a
fox" "He eats like q pig" "Ie has
doglike faithfulness." "ue Is as brave
as lion." "Ie is as treacherous us n
snake" HE was as hungry as a WOLF"
etc.
Our good and our bad qualities alike
are mapped out in our humble animal re-
lations. The horse stands for ambition,
which strives and suffers in silence. The
dog represents friendship, which suffers
and sacrifices much, but whines loudly
when injured. We have no doubt that of
the IL passions which enter into Fou-
rier's complex analysis of man each has
it's prototype In some one animal.
To rebel at the animal combination
which makes up man would be folly
The Maker Of US all, from ants up, nat
urally gathered together the various parts
in lower animal form before finishing
the work of man. A tremendously bal
anced mixture Of all the animals is cal
culated undoubtedly to produce the per-
feet man.
Therefore study your animal make up.
Analyze honestly and intclligently the
so called lower" creatures from whom
you derive your mental characteristics
IL you have not yet done so, study at
once some good work on embryology and
learn with amazemcnt and awe of your
marvellous prenatal transformations. Then
do your best to control the menagerie that
is at work In your mind.
Stupefy Mr.. Pig if he is too prominent.
Circumvent Mr.. Fox if he tries to rule
you and make of you q mere cunning
machine. Do not let your old dog Tray
qualities of friendship lead to your be-
ing made fool.
In short, study carefully the animal
qualities that make up your tcmpcra-
ment and prove in your own person the
falseness of Napolcon's irritating state
ment that mans temperament can new
er be changed by himself.
1t may interest you to note that when
man becomes insane the fact is Mt once
made apparent that his mind, dethroned,
had acted as the ruler of n savage men
agerie. Many crazy men imagine them
selves animals of one sort or another.
Nearly all of them display the grosscst
animal qualities, once their mind is de-
ranged. Women of the greatest refine
ment sink into dreadful animalism when
insane. HeiRe tells of a constable who in
his boyhood ruled his native city. One
fine day This constable suddenly went
crazy. And thereupon he began
to roar like lion or squall like a cat"
Hcine remarks with calculated naivete:
1--WE little boys were greatly delighted at
the old fellow, and trooped yelling after
him, until he was carried off to a mad
house."
There is, by the way, much Of the nat
ural animal in ''little boys" 1t takes
years to make a fairly reasonable crea-
ture of young human. For that reason
many ignorant parents are foolishly dis
tressed at juvenile displays of animalism,
which are perfectly natural.
The same Heine, whose writings you
ought not to neglect, describes beautifully
n human menagerie. Well quote that,
and then let you off for the day. Heine
was living In Paris in the forties and
used to visit curious revolutionary freak
named Ludwig Borne. OF this mans
house Heine wrote:
81 found in his salon such a menagerie
of people us can hardly be found in the
Jardin des Plantes 1.-THE Paris geological
garden). In the background several polar
bears were crouching, who smoked and
hardly ever spoke except to growl out
now and then Il real fatherland 'Donner-
wetter,' in a deep bass voice. Near them
was squatting Polish wolf in q red cap,
who occasionally yelped out silly, wild
remark in a hoarse tone. There, too, l
found French monkey, one of the most
hideous creatures l ever saw. He kept
up series of grimacrs, each of which
seemed more lovely than the last" etc.
If Heine's polar bears, wolf and mon
key had studied themselves, as we advise
you to study yourself, they might have
escaped the sarcasm Of the sharpest
tongue ever born in or out of Germany
New York Journal.