The Washington times., 1919-05-11
A Conversation
Two Tvnes of Animal-Which Is More UsefuI7

First each of these twolegged creatures despses the
other EVERYTHING about the annoys the monkey from
the smoke of his cigarette to the look on MS race ana Ie
fact that he is a STRANGE man. The monkey has race
prejudice he hates everything but MS own Deeu VI
Man is like the monkey in that
Tho man despises the monkey, and all the more
thoroughly because he happens to be man lacking IN
tepence wearing clothes because others nVeneo tnem
fore him living like the monkey in this, that ne taxes MS
cge the world exactly he found it, and leaves without
doing anything to make it better
Scientists will tell you in which ways these creatures
are alike Each of their skeletons contains exactly the same
number and the kind Of bones lew extra teetn In
the apes mouth They both have five fingers on eacn nan
FIVE on the feet also Man his feet only 70 stan not
To GRASP so his foot fingers have dwndled into small toes
The monkey using his ten fngers still controls them on
the foot and on hands The brain formation OF the two
creatures is much alike front and back brain In each
the left side of the brain controlling the right OF the body
and vice versa The picture shows them alike IN their
motions Each through ignorance, desplses the other
You can imagine this kind of conversation between the
The MAN: "You poor, distorted, fat-headed, long
armed shortlegged monsrosty They say descend from
your kind. What joke!''
The APE: eff they say that they insult me and all my
relations We may have made mistakes and neglected op
portunites for lived in tropical forest where was
easy to get living and thinking wasn't necessary. But
pray to the god of monkeys that may not be held
sponsible for thing like you hairless worm, obliged to
steal wool from the sheep to your feeble body
eff could get hold of you with one OF these hands
would soon make you know which OF US IS the superior
animal"
The MAN: Eyes, IF, but it's big IF. brought you
from your Jungle and Gagged you here to my children
built the cage that holds you You poor thing you don
even know that the world round and belongs to and
my brother men
Which of these two is above the other? The monkey
by all means for he is frscass ape. The creature he
looks at is thirdcass Nothing but million years
of evolution and another million with slow changes In brain
and body could develop this monkey No effort of his will
make him any better than he is He rolls over In the
straw shakes his bars how in his lonesomenes swings
his trapeze sleeps and forgets He can do no more
The man, by an effort of the will might make himself
at least useful in the work that the world must do
He could himself least of the sefapprova that makes
him worthless.
The main difference between the ape and the man in
the picture is this: 1T COSTS MORE TO KEEP THE
MAN If the monkey could think he would be out OF that
cage of steel and He might open the door and
escape he could have freedom without that he had
thinking brain Bunyon free his prison when he wrote
Pilgrims Progress because he was thinking and
THOUGHT is freedom.
Milton was free when blind He could not walk alone
the But his mind could see his brain could
through space the distant There prison for
him; blindness did not confne him
Beethoven, whose whole life music, was free in the
world of music after absolute deafness had shut every
sound from his When he conducted his mag
ncen symphony he followed with his eyes the bow of the
first vonst He could note of the music or the
thunder of applause that greeted him It necessary
his face from the orchestra to the audience that he
might see the demonsaCon OF approval But the thing
that is greater than the thing created And Bee
thoven deaf not really deaf for he heard in his mind
music that others could never hear
With thought you free without it you are slave
prisoner. Imagination which is the power back of
thought takes from this EARTH wandering through the
vaness of the universe and from this age to the ages
of misery that behind and forward to the ages of
glory that ahead of ages of glory be constructed
RY THE THOUGHT OF MAN
Thought is freedom Many of the richest are miserable
slaves for they seek to get pleasure from the pamperng of
a limited body. They to the end of that
There is limit to the pleasure that may be found in
the mind Croesus gazing lovingly his gold as he showed
it to the wandering philosopher had not one housandth
part of the happiness of poor young mother looking upon
Tho fac of herna horn chi