It is well enough to let the ape and tiger die, but it is hardly fair
to kill off the natural and courageous apes and tigers and allow the
spawn of cowardly apes and tigers to live. The prize-fighting apes
and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural
evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly,
somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash. This is
not a brief for the prize-fighter. It is a blow of the fist between
the eyes of the somnambulists, teetering up and down, muttering magic
phrases, and thanking God that they are not as other animals.
GLEN ELLEN, CALIFORNIA.
June 1900.
THE DIGNITY OF DOLLARS
Man is a blind, helpless creature. He looks back with pride upon his
goodly heritage of the ages, and yet obeys unwittingly every mandate
of that heritage; for it is incarnate with him, and in it are
embedded the deepest roots of his soul. Strive as he will, he cannot
escape it--unless he be a genius, one of those rare creations to whom
alone is granted the privilege of doing entirely new and original
things in entirely new and original ways.
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