The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-24

The monkey-mitative foolishness.
The horse-ambition.
The sheep-timidity, and so on indefinitely.
Gas hungry as wof''-"as scared as a rabbit
"stupid a goose"-"blnd as bat"-"solemn as an
Constantly man calls in the name of animal to
describe his feelings to describe another man. Who
robs the poor through usury is called loan shark
In an article on 'The Reign of Nonsense written by
Prince Eugene Troubetzkoy professor of the philosophy
law Moscow the interesting fact pointed out that
in the various bells that they imagine mix up animals and
He writes:
It no vain fancy which, in every religion has peoped
hell with beings of mixed naturehaf human half beast
These strange human shapes with their birds feet their
horns and their tails had expressed in many ages the same
idea-hat incapable of rising above the level Of the
beast The realm of the spirit bears the imprint OF the besta
nature"
Troubetzkoy SAYS again.
Nor is only the horrors of which discover the
beast in man. Every manifestation of the slavery of his
spirit every experience of his dependence on the lower
nature produces just the effect On many human faces
this is quite clearly reflected We the expression Of
sheep of pig which is being fatened But there is
something worse than that.
Have a human countenance the plain
marks of a wolf in disguise?
"And again. you may see in the evil eye of bird
Of prey Or it is the vouptuous air OF the sar that holds
you fascinated the loahsome smile of the creature and
the sy glaze of his little eyes, makes you suspect that
he has tail curled up under his coat"
Of the millions of human beings that will see this ed
toa published in different cities throughout the country
force easily recognized as belonging to an inferior creature
Our feelings need be hurt by the suggestion that
made up of different kinds of animals that the human
brain composite of all those animal brains struggling
toward publication and greater efficiency.
Put it the other around and that each of the
other animals equipped with small part of that which is
in man.
The monkey for instance, has, the same as man, two
hundred bones And with very slight differences in size they
actually the bones. But possessing mans two
hundred bones doesn't make of the monkey
The idea in this picture is this:
If the animals your brothers, and all represented in
you encourage the right kind of animal force within your
self.
Don't let the lamb within you grow into big sheep,
frightened at everything including its own shadow.
A small dog one quarter the size of a sheep kill
hundred sheep nght-simpy by running after them
They rush this way and that crowd together their hearts
beat they die in fright and found piled up dead the
ground-many without scratch of the dogs tooth-hled
by their own fear.
Many go through the field of life like sheep chased
by small dog.
They worried by fears anxietes that they wear
out fade away and die prematurely killed not by COM
petition, or the act Of anybody-but BY THEIR OWN
side of the picture. The quality of the lion has been de-
veloped in that manpartly by the good influences of
hered partly by seconrol and the determination to be
his master.
Napoleon, the smallest of millions of that he led or
conquered
You can find the same quality in physical giant like
George Washington out of whom you might have carved
two Napoeons physically and in the way of courage three
or four Napoleons.
Eighty per cent of Washingtons strength and eighty
per cent of the strength and of all COURAGE
certain quality that persistently says, 81 and
will
Continued in Last COIumn.)