Show the proper study of mankind is diogenes picked chicken M A A ST Lord what Is man that thou of himor him bim or the son eon of man that thou test teat him psalm viii vill 4 what is this vain pigmy that struts in puny majesty it a few briet brief years upon the smallest sm ailes ofa ora million worlds this boastful lilliput that vaunts daunts itself to heaven as the lord of all creation creati ort this thia outcast gardener that claims kinship with the angels and their makeig this swaggering braggart that through its inverted invented ed telescope looks out upon gods mighty universe suns buns I 1 moons planets and limitless bys ays terms terns of ponderous orbs arbs rolling io in vast immensity tier beyond tier circle circle to the resplendent seventh heavens where the almighty has het set his hia throne and established the headquarters of omnipotent ni omni omniscient and everlasting dominion this thing which sweeping over the boundless reat real realma realms ms of infinity hees tees only ITSELF the central figure of heaven earth sea anasky and sky and exclaims for me and my enjoyment were all things madel madei man A worm crushed by a careless tread A mote in the sunbeam optime of time A wriggling animalcule of whom a thousand billions nil nii lions squirm I 1 rm 1 and naper caper slash fume cut each othe others r s throats rage ravish and devour in one tiny globe which amid the whirling myriads of spheres is but a drop in the boundless ocean of space man mau A mere link between angels and devils A blind aid aad ald stupid gudgeon p darting at some cruel barbed hook book I 1 to catch a bogus fly A myth only real in its follies and its sins A vapor fleeting vanishing before the first beams of true morning light A scentless bud which tho the faintest 1 rost frost may blast A pitiful clothes rack a tailors sign a milliners adver advertisement ti A mere inere greasy bundle of decaying dust A postponed luncheon for cemetery maggots an invention for lor feeding doctors apothecaries undertakers hearse horses and grave diggers the only sinner bloner outside of leli leil in all the domains d of jehovah oleaginous fuel for lor the flames of future damnation man that is born or ora ofa a woman is 13 of few days and full or of trouble and aud he that is not born of a woman much better born with a feeble wail of sut summering suffering raring and regret as his bis garmt first salutation tu to earth born to a heritage of woo woe in a world of graveyards ards whose every sd sod is watered with M blood od and tearh tears whose every breeze breeza is sick with pestilential exhalation exha lations and heavy laden with sighs and anguished prayers and yet hear the lunatic rejoicing of donkey dadd daddies les los mammies cammies mam mauri mies aunties aquties and grannies Rr annies annles champagne corks popping toasts guzzled if a rulers brat cannon booming and flags flying and ant why T only another hapless little victim of colic lace caps stomach aches paregoric teething rings and spankings span kings started with weak unwilling feet on the path that wander as it may leads leads ever to the tomb only another sk voyager launched on a sea whose storm beaten beores are strewn with melancholy wrecks only another wretched little football foot ball of fate kicked out upon the commons to be cuffed and tossed a thousand cross cros seyed ways for sunday only another miserable little gauntlet runner between heaven and aud hell I 1 wih the chances ten to one lor for brimstone instead of precious stones man I 1 at his best but a swift journeyer from eternity past to eternity to come A thistle down of luck driven hither and thither and by ten thousand times ten thousand varying gusts gusto of passion chance providence hope fear desire and aud discontent ashap A soap bub bubble bubbie ble bie of fortune blown from natures sportive pipe to float a brief bright moment gorgeous with borrowed tints and lustrous nes nos then punctured by deaths unerring inevitable and remorseless finger burst into nothingness and disappear A perishable earthenware repository of disappointments vexatious vexations carking cares and blasted expectations A sarcophagus of dead hopes and baill born joys an everywhere bet set setup up tombstone marking the burial place of lofty aspiras eions noble purposes and brilliant anticipations pat ions A leather wrapped package of palas and sorrows rio ric ketty bones rheu matio matic joints and torturous nerves A peripatetic hatching box of disease and dissolution an ambling hive of latent or developed crimes and follies A portable groan factory A vagrant laboratory of seething wretchedness thet tha only being in all gods wide dominions that bears ever with it a houn boun fountain tain of tears sole rations of hell and the grave father of 0 mercies I 1 why from silent duent earth dujat thoa thou awake and anci curse him birth T tear him irom quiet ravish him from night and make a thankless present of oby iby light rush ruah into being a reverse ot thee and animate animal e a clod with misery 7 marii man A blotchy blo bio teba leprous pim pleon creations face a foul and ulcerous wart upon her nose A A whited sepulchre fair tair indeed to look u upon but within full of rottenness and asb ash ashes A gilded cage of unclean birds an enamel rind enveloped mass of sal mated carrion in which swarms of slimy moral reptiles revel and hold high carnival loathsome loa ioa loath theome pome vermin of lusts battening squirming and in every nook and corner of their festering feasting place the hideous maggots of embryo murder rape and robbery the lean skippers of fraud envy slander and jealousy rioting in green and scummy i cirit filth and emotional corruption ugh I 1 heaven be praised that the almighty ruler spares all beings but himself that horrid sight a naked human heart I 1 and yet this thia putridity bred mite in the universal cheese this infinitesimal ot of wickedness in a whirlwind of resistless haphazard this microscopic atom of pois poil luti n in a norwegian maelstrom of exist ence enc ethla ethis this anthill builder of infamies amies on the surface of immensity this sole rival malefactor of fiends between the abodes of deus and Dia dla bolua sounds abroad with ass ars assitine assi nine iDine trumpet the dignity of his bis origin lg inthe the nobility of his nature and the of his destiny Des deb desany tny his grandeur of intellect his delicacy of conscience his knowledge of right bight and wrong his bis glorious achievements and his high and holy aims alms ha ual hallian ha ha ho hol hot teebee I 1 HIS hrs DIGNIFIED ORIGIN dworn descended from a shirtless gardener who was discharged kicked out of eden for stealing his was masters winter apple appler his NOBLE NATURE teh teu tb thousand penitentiaries aries jails and calabo oses bear belr testimony to it rhe policemen at every street corner the gallows on every highway stands a monumental evidence of it E every very bludgeons blow or hiss of assas ansas sins dagger every barred window and clanking fetter proclaims it in trumpet tones the tho heart of man Is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked jeremiah 9 the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint from the sole ot of the toot even unto the head there is no soundness in anit i it but wounds coundi and bruises and g sores isaiah 1 fc 56 5 6 the lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that thit did understand and seek god aby are suii full gope aside they are all together become filthy there is none that boeth good no not one oue psalm xiv 2 3 none non calleta for justice nor any plead eth for truth they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity they hatch cockatrice eggs and weave waive the spiders web he be that leateth of their eggs dieth and that which is crushed brea breake keth ih out into a viper their works are work works a of iniquity and the act of violence Is in their hands bands their neet feet run to evil and they make baste to shed innocent lu docent blood their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity wasting and do destruction are in their paths isaiah lix 47 4 47 7 dye bear it thunder thus jehovah sets seba his bis seal upon tuat nobility of nature 11 HIS hla LOFTY DESTINY to die and rot like adoc a dog to puke the very atmosphere with the stench of his putrescence to furnish worm feed with hig his dainty flesh and a lodging prace place for toads and his haughty skull Hi his GIANT glant INTELLECT eau fau faugh bi seeing merely the outer crust of things an ignoramus athis at his wisest unable to tell why one cats caes white and another black A mily silly ivro A six foot tall mature aged babe and suckling pleased with a rattle tickled with a straw AB ats delighted with a bit of tawdry tinsel on his collar breast or sleeve steeve as a infant with its penny pendy bells and teething rings go seek the evidences of that mighty intelligence in our perpetual motion frenzies our south sea bubbles and tulip manias in our lunatic aay say urns our homes for inebriates our congresses legislatures and debating clubs li lobar ar the tho voice of the all ali wise everyone is a hypocrite and an evil doer and every mouth speak eth folly fully isaiah ix 17 among all the wise men of tha the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee but they are altogether brutish and foolish jeremiah x 78 7 8 we grope for the wall like the blind and we grope as if we bad no eyes we stumble at noonday as in the night isaiah lix 10 brutish and foolish A blind stumbling groper how are a re you 9 grand rand raud and ex pan ive lve penetrating aud nud comprehensive mind als nis AND KNOWLEDGE or of right AND WRONG A transient meteor flash of what whal ought to be whose fleeting glare but serves to deepen the dar darkness knem knew of what Is A fitful flickering taper with a bushel measure yea a hogshead ho ahead huge brewers va of lustful inclination ever ready to be turned down over it wandering uncertain jack blantern light which only serves to make more visible and more inexcusable the he wilfully and deliberately does multiplier of rods roda and moral cat o niue nine tails talis w with ith which the knowing trans transgressor transgress gres or be scourged urged they are impudent children and stiff hear hearted tid ezekiel it ii 4 they hear bear thy words but they do not nol ezekiel 32 they refused to hearken and their ears bars yea they made their hearts an adamant stone lest they should hear law zachariah til yli 1112 11 12 they hearkened not nor inclined their ear but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart and went backward and not forward jeremiah vii 21 that servant which knew his bis lords will wilh and ild iid lid fild it not shall be beaten with many stripes but he be that knew know not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few luke xii 47 48 his vaunted conscience alid and knowledge not restraining from iniquities but adding to the penal les ies mere more augmenters aug menters of his larru pings supplementary thongs in the dread knouts khouts that shall make his bis spiritual fur far fly in the great and terrible and day of final account squaring and criminal flogging and singe ing lug oh ob idiotic and pitiable boas boaster boasten ter tor br bragging ging of tho the millstones mill stones that will 0 odly only drag him deeper and yet deeper down in the fiery depths of that sulphurous lava lake upon whose flame crested billows satan lincoln moloch and stanton paddle their red hot canoes I 1 AND HIS GLORIOUS AIMS AND ann achievements what are they all ALL pitiful vanities light as the dandelions tl el ion lon Is d down 0 wn evan evanescent escen t as th e g 0 w u pon a butter flys wing wings learn learning in g wealth beauty glory fame and alid happiness these are the glittering bubbles for lor which millions of millions have rushed and scrambled planned plotted delved sweat ted led panted I 1 swindled battled and plunged headlong into bell these are the dummy rods gods of man Forthe for these thebe he wildly strives fights sins and prays LEA RNiNo tut tutt tut after all au his elings all his efforts what does he know absolutely nothing let him explore the whole wide realm of human knowledge drink deep of every barthl earthly fountain ot of information and he be cant tzi tell teli wiy why the violet is blue and its liti leaflet flet green why the rose is red and the lily just beside it growing in the same soil boil watered by the same bbowers showers and dews and kissed by bv the same ame breezes and white with all his bis punny puffy wisdom what pherman tell why the amo ame me corn and grass turn to hair upon the cow to wool upon the sheep to bristles upon the swine and fea te ahers abers hers bers on the goose why one ti atiee ee bears acorns and another plum plumb why his dogs tall tail growa at one end instead of the ether aby he hel hei is himself instead or of somebody else let proud man soar upon the wings of science to the highest heaven let him weigh the worlds in a balanc balance tame the forked lightning and make them the bumble humble mini mint ministers tere of his bis will search ou out every gem of mysterious lare iare which khz the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear rava ravage getho gotho tho whole broad domain of literature an and aud d art bear omm off every jewel of philosophy chemistry geology and astronomy af handle fixed stars comets eclipses earthquakes and thunder storms as a boy does llis ilis marbles and jack jackknives knives L thim make his bis mind a grand storehouse store house of all that ham has ever been discovered attained or done since omnipotence set the univ universe erscin in motion and he cint caul tell wily why his hair grows on n his bis head and noton his hl feet reet why his locks are sorrel and hii hit hi t neighbors black why a jackass tl coald oil dut tilt tor ij ck el 1 l and arld in all his biggee highest pitch or of fili fill touch of fevers finger on hi jit brain he clanks blanks his chains and howls behind the ihn bars of a maniacs cell A elah olah ilfe life iline ilme of study midnight lamps and muty muty tornes will not enable the foud fond schol Febol scholasti astl asti to enter enier the lowest blue backed book 04 elass class a WEALTH the tawdry gilding of the tumble bugs ball A premium for tor lurg burg larmand assassins bribe vf fones rones ch idren to pray for or his death bonus fr hift bist cifes second husband A little more dirt arid and lucre luere A little bigger muck heap hrap A few now more filthy fi figured ared bogs r gs breedi breedl breeding tg itch and niggardliness A few more outi ounces 1 ces ees of gold gold I 1 bano or of our race stained etli rith the tears and bloch of a hundred generations cursed abhor autho of half bair earths sins anami and mi eries erles parent of robbery and murder pay of brutal country and liberty destroying janiz iries price of every infamy and arld horror borror inciter or of the savage hordes of tamerlane alaric Z nghia khan and sherman donn dunn laden with the guilt of six thousand years of avarie e and plunder this 1 nud aud a million cilo clio clinking littig baubles wont purchase a mo mon ments peace of mind wind a clock tick of acme a single gurgling asp wasp of breath I 1 let the sordid rake and scrape twist feist contrive bargain cheat and steal enlarge bis hia stores add acre to acre sere and neld field to field grab grind extort ama s till ca cat ct t ing his bla bleared e vs es over a miniature empire he can exclaim ex caim calm caim 1 I a it lord of all I 1 purvey survey deaths skeleton arrow smites him and his is pocket les A wooden box aud anid a six foot root hole in some soine cheap corner of his possessions are all ail he be needs the reveler in purple and fine linen opens his eyes in hell and craves a drop of water from the fingor tip of uhe tho dog |