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Study This Dreadful Giant, and His Power
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was killed in the Nola territory, near the burning
Equator.
He is a monster in power, six feet three inches
tall, nine feet from tip to tip of his outstretched
hands, and he is a relatively small type of his
race. For others of his kind have been killed that
measured eight feet in hoght and were otherwise big
in proportion
This dreadful, ferocious animal was killed by a
tribe of African savage? u>fl> assegais, their na
tive spears, and stone rifle In spite <->f their
numbers and advantages, he killed two n* them
before he succumbed. If thev bad met him hand
to hand, with no advantage of weapons, he would
have killed the entire tribe easily, pulling them
to pieces and crushing them without effort. They
would have had no chance against him.
Young men, who sometimes think too much of
brute force and of your own courage and lighting
power, look at this deed monster and think how
little physical force and animal courage amount to.
This gorilla giant makes the human fighter seem
small.
Your prize fighting champion, ‘HEAVY
WEIGHT" weighs 190 pounds. This gorilla, with
out an ounce of fat upon him, weighs 600 pounds.
Your greatest prize fighter has a chest perhaps
46 inches round. John L. Sullivan, in his fighting
days, had a chest of 44 inches.
The chest of this gorilla has a circumference of
1 50 inches.
Look at that fearful, hairy breast. This mon
ster could have seized in his arms three of your
champion heavyweight fighters and easily crushed
them to death against the bones of that great
chest.
The arms of this gorilla are four and one-half
feet long.
An expert says of this monster:
This gorilla at the end of a rope could prcbablv
eutpull forty men. An average man can drag a
weight of 200 pound?. Forty men could drag a
weight of 8.000 pounds, or four tons. Two horses
can drag a weight of four tons. Now. this gorilla
appears fr his description and measurements to
be fully equal to two horses. Therefore, he couid
draw four tons, or as much as forty men
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This description is given of the gorilla s appear
ance—a hideous and forbidding monstrosity:
The gorilla’s arms reach to the middle of the legs
when the animal is standing upright.
The hands are clumsy, the thumbs very small
and the fingers joined by a web
The neck scarcely exists. The leg has a slight
calf. The toes are stumpy and thic ; . the great t -
moves like a thumb. The head ‘s large and re-ed-
ix this gorilla, dead and propped
up to have his photograph taken,
you see the biggest, most power
ful “man-shaped’’ thing that has
i ever lived on this earth.
I This giant of the African forest
Suppose That This Fierce Race of Gorillas Had Developed Into Rulers of This Planet
Suppose That, in Place of Men Relying on Thought for Power, the Dominant Ruling Race
Had Come Up from This Gorilla Tribe, Relying on Ferocity and Brute Courage.
How Fortunate for the World That Intelligence Is the Surviving Power-Brute Force Dying
Away, Conquered by Thought That Is Capable of Civilization.
Young Men, Let This Picture of Brutal Power Teach You How Little Fighting, Muscle,
Brute Strength and Animal Courage Amount To.
ing. with enormous ridges above the eyes, which
give it a frightful appearance.
The eye teeth are developed Into large tusks.
The nose has a long bridge, and the nostrils look
downward The ear Is email and like that of a man.
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Every intelligent reader of this newspaper will
study with interest and earnest thought this giant
man-shaped creature.
Excepting the elephant, this gorilla is undoubt
edly the most powerful creature upon the land. He
fears nothing and no living thing can harm him—ex
cept the poisonous serpent. And the gorilla is prob
ably too stupid to fear even the poisoned fangs.
♦
All over this earth are scattered different specimens
of animals, more or less like man in shape, in skull,
in skeleton and in brain.
Among the monkeys there are differences as great
as among the human beings. Scientists tell you that
the difference between the lowest savage and the high
est ape in Africa is not as great as the difference be
tween an African monkey and a South American
monkey.
Somewhere, at some time on this earth, man de
veloped gradually into a thinking being. Everybody
knows that No intelligent person teaches the con
trary at this day.
Skulls exis' that are more than one hundred thou
sand years old—and nobody living of average intelli
gence denies that.
Through the ages, thousands of centuries, man has
been developed.
How lucky for the world that ihe creature develop
ing into man, ruler of the universe, was the creature
of thought, AND NOT THIS MONSTER OF BRUTE
POWER
Haeckel, the great German scientist, suggests that
man appeared at about the same period on different
parts of the earth’s surface, the different distinct races
coming up from different lower families which ac
counts for the extraordinary differences in different
races of human beings.
He thinks it likely that Australia, Africa and North
ern Europe produced distinctly different types of
human beings—migration, war, conquest have mixed
the races since the beginning.
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The scientist, seeing that which is ABSOLUTELY
PROVED and denying everything else, likes to believe
♦ hat the develcpment of man from lower forms of life
was left more or less to chance.
We believe that an intelligence higher than that of
tbp c-reatesf •ripritisr GO NOTHING TO ACCIDENT
ON THIS EARTH, AND THAT NOTHING IS LEFT
TO ACCIDENT ANYWHERE IN THIS UNIVERSE,
FROM THE GREATEST SUN TO THE SMALLEST
PARTICLE OF MATTER.
How dreadful it would have been had the ruling race
on this earth come up from 'his great gorilla, with his
giant arms, his huge teeth, his low forehead and great
jaw, his chest one hundred and fifty inches in circum
ference and his brain devoted to rage and hatred!
Had this monster ape grown in numbers and
in power, had it developed into the ruling race on this
planet, what a horrid pandemonium of brutality and
hatred this earth would be at present!
A wisdom greater than that of all the scientists—the
wisdom that balances the suns and the planets, and the
wisdom that gives justice, power above brutality—
would not permit this ferocious monster of the Equa
tor to develop into man—and rule.
The ancestors of our race would have been found
among the timid, shivering, frightened creatures that
ran in terror from such a huge brute as this.
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The story of this great monster’s inferiority is found
in his hand.
When you look at it you see four huge fingers, great
hooks of tremendous power, and a tiny thumb, scarcely
bigger than that of a little child.
That LITTLE thumb tells the storv. A different
kind of animal, WITH A BIGGER THUMB, and a
forehead growing slowly higher through the centuries
until the jaw finally went back and the forehead came
out and gave us the man of to-day—that is the creature
that went ahead of this monkey.
Look at the thumb on your right hand. It tells the
story of growth.
The ANIMAL’S hand is a weapon. The gorilla’s
hand is a weanon. The hand of man IS A HIGHLY
FINISHED TOOL. The highly developed thumb helps
every one of the fingers, does as much work as all
four of them. Its development shows the development
of the brain that controls it.
The weak, feeble, man-shaped animal with the soft
er skull the excitable nervous system, the hand learn
ing through cunning to make up for lack of strength—
that is the ancestor of the human race of to-day.
Because the weaker man-shaped animal could not
fight HE HAD TO THINK
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The power, the brutality and the ferocity went down.
The great dinosaur, seventy feet in length, with a brain
as small as that of a puppy dog, vanished. The mam
moth and the sabre-toothed tiger went in their turn.
This powerful gorilla survives o ’ly where the sun’s
equatorial heat and the denseness of the jungle protect
his brutal power from man’s intelligence.
And even he succumbs to a small crowd of savages
—-because they can think and unite, and he cannot.
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Perhaps we shall never know where this race of
ours came from—-whether it appeared suddenly in one
spot on the earth, which is the tradition handed down
to us by almost all of the different religions, of
whether it appeared simultaneously here and there,
with an ancestor in China, another in Africa, another
in Australia, another in America, and another in Europe.
But this we do know—the animal that became man
was a timid animal, forced to use his brain in place
of big claws and big teeth.
He was the abused, persecuted, frighten2d animal,
in whom a sense of justice was aroused because of the
injustice with which the stronger animals treated him,
He lived in holes, and far up in the trees, and on little
platforms built out over the lakes, and in villages up
on the sides of cliffs, while the great gorillas and ele
phants and other monsters paraded up and down defi
antly.
And. little by little, as man hiding in his caves and
holes and tree tops developed the power to think and
organize, he came down from the hills, down to the
valleys, fought the animal monsters, fought the pow
erful vegetation; and to-day, only half-civilized, still
more than half-savage, he rules the earth—controls
it. develops it—and the monste-s like this that fright
ened his ancestors of two hundred and fifty thousand
years ago are now only curiosities to amuse man’*
children
A £ ♦
Show this picture to YOLJF children. It will j n .
terest them Show them what a big animal it is; tell
them how powerful it was when it lived. Please their
young imaginations by describing how this giant of
Africa could kill a horse with a single blow or choke a
lion to death with his powerful arms, or scatter Afri
can savages as easily as a great bulldog would scatter
mice.
And then make the children realize HOW I 'TT’ F
BRUTE FORCE AMOUNTS TO TELI THEM
THAT EVEN AN IGNORANT SAVAGE JOINING
WITH A FEW OF HIS FRIENDS, CAN KLf
THIS GREAT GORILLA, BECAUSE THE SAV
AGE THINKS AND THE GORILLA DOES NOT
THINK.
Show them that a little revolver, made by the brain
of a man, is more powerful than fifty gorillas, and
make them realize that it is more important to de’velon
the brain that CREATES power than to develop the
muscles.
Explain to them that this gorilla has verv little
brain, BECAUSE HE HAS SUCH GIGANTIC
MUSCLES. His vitality goes into those great
that great chest, and there is very little left for the
shrunken brain.
Man, on the contrary, using his muscles less, and
developing the m:nd, has become a thinker, powerful
m nrcportion as his thought has been powerful.
There is an interesting Sunday story for the children
in this giant monkey, and there is a very’ interesting
sermon as well
Let the childxeo b*ve both.