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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 * < * 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. * 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. * ♦ * 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. ' * * * 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 * * * 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. .* * * 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.