| Show AND CIVIL most people have fondled the idea that civilization and cannibalism sire are so antipodal to each other that they never could become friendly associates tut but an article to in the london review bythe by abe eminent egyptologist dr flinders petrie to Is a suggestion two altogether at variance vari aBOe with ine prevailing notion dr petrie la Is not a cannibal nor does he be advocate the ibe practice but he be does apologize for it among the people abere it prevails tie he thus ibue classifies the motives for can 0 to be more fur medial motives than tor for physical desire per cent cn honor kindness future good love do 20 to obtain strength or magic results 19 As a ceremony or to acquire position 10 As a punishment 9 54 from hunger or need of food 18 from preference as food 28 46 following this comes a series of citations 19 to why various people eat human flesh covering the field of asia australia south america paly nesia north norta america and africa in the first three continents the higher motives of honor and kindness prevail an aa an incentive I 1 to human flesh batt eating ng aa i in n the idea by tb abe cucui of south america americ that it to is oetter better to be inside a friend than to be swallowed up by the cold earth 11 1 1 after his illustrations illustration dr petrie re markk thus we see that quite apart from the use nae of human flesh simply as aa food in the majority of tribes the mental desires are prevalent to honor or benefit the dead to obtain then their virtues to acquire ceremonial position or lastly to prevent their haunting the survivors referring to ancient egypt in a period of its high he saye when a short time ago it oame came to li 11 ht that a civilized people at about B C who bad exquisite handicraft whose children played with choicely wrought toys while their fathers carried on a widespread trade in the mediterranean when it appeared that these them people habitually out cue the heads from their dead and ate some portion of the he bodies no one would credit the notion every sort of explanation kawas was started but the abe facts facia could not be gain said and the broken marrowbone marrow bone and piles of ribs and vert vertebrae ebrie told plainly how bow the libyan invaders of egypt had honored their beloved dead kud and now this year it is found that one of the grandest and most capable people that ever lived those who built tae splendid moury masonry of the pyramids at once the greatest and most moat highly finished works of man who carved some of the most lifelike statue who organized society and labor on a great scale who treasured a delicate moral feeling that many of these people reverently burled buried the bones bonea of their dead after elaborately removing all the flesh why they did so we can hardly doubt when we look at the ways of other races after reading or dr petrit petrita s apology for canal ballem it will rill not be b ulf fiealt lot people dop to be b here despite his denial deals the tones stories that when in ID german africa he caused natives native to be caught killed and eaten for the amusement of himself and associates As to the great moral mut bat cannibalism to ie with murder mr petrie dispenses with any aldy compunctions ou on hie ble part in his statement thai in nearly half the tribes it more or less leas it is the dead who axe are eaten and in most moat cases where people are killed it is the eick infirm and aged who in a low state ol of civilization and especially among nomads must find and their lives a burden to them this last assertion has a good deal ol of the ring of in effect la in that anen a man gets the idea that life to is not worth living he be Is instilled lu in committing suicide after all it would not be much stronger ranger to find cannibalism resorted resor tei to by modern civilization under some conditions than to have a represent tive ti ve of high civilized lile life apologize tor for it la in having baying cannibalism portrayed ayea lor for his own delectation as an alleged dr petrie did no more than point tbt extreme ot of the present in amusement and son nation all m civilized rome had her bloody gladiatorial wherein murder was a feature of popular eMent and modern civilization is 19 not dot far ar behind roe rho elite of will rush today to see is a professional bruiser who brutally batters his ent edt and the same society delights in witnessing wilm wit ning the actual beating process jt it la Is only a stop step tarther farther to th gladiatorial killing lor for the amusement ol of a crazed pleas u re ug public and one mure more stop step to outing eating the flesh of the victim to me morbid craving for sensationalism in DOWD anu adu to in exciting entertainment so bo baclaw fur the amusement amu Bement of Alric aD explorers and fur for loving society are not very for far apart the future of the present fast living civilization is in not hard bard to depict lu general its steadily increate increase log IDS crimes against life 1110 luedi and the fountains of life and its disregard ot of virtue and sell bell restraint in the light oj 01 conditions which now exist the spirit of prophecy giuly Is in which rolef flog to the present age 01 ano he world declares that hat except days sti onit be shortened no flesh should coald be saved caved |
