About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

47 Our Dumb Animals 33 (1914-1915)
Vol. 47 No. 3

handle is hein.journals/animals47 and id is 33 raw text is: U.S rde Mark, Regsed 1868, AND FOR FORTy4N , T GELL e AMimals, The American Hum San 0s1 I would not enter on my list of friends, 1p %ry 0 Though graced with polished manners + and fine sense, GO-D TO senseOD,'. TO Yet wanting sensibility, the man a PEACE CN EARTH, I 1, A l ~ I U upuKINDNES8 JUSTICE Y sets oot upon a worm. -Cowper. O AND ME I CY TO' . EVERY LIVING cREATURE. - w40a Vol. 47 Boston, August, 1914 No. 3 Evidences of Relationship I. Man-like Apes By PROFESSOR J. HOWARD MOORE HE science of biology teaches us that the first animals were the lowest animals, and that from these lowest forms have grown, through many millions of years, all of the different families and species that now make up the animal kingdom, in- cluding our own species. The universal kinship means the blood-relationship of all the orders and species of animals. Since all animals have grown from common ancestors, they really form one great family. There are near relationships and remote relationships, but relationships everywhere. Since all men are bound together by the ties of a common kinship, so also are all the inhabi- tants of the earth bound together by the ties of a universal kinship. Whether they come into ex- istence among the water$ or among the desert sands; in a hole in the earth, in the hollow of a tree, or in a palace; whether they build nests or empires; whether they swim, fly, crawl, or walk; and whether they realize it or riot - the inhabi- tants of this world are all related to each other, physically, mentally and morally. But it is not necessary to be learned in science in order to know that non-human beings are in a general way much like human beings. Just the ordinary observation of them in their daily lives about us is enough to convince anyone that they are beings with joys and sorrows, desires and capabilities, similar to our own. No human being can associate with these people day after day-associate with them in a kind, honest, and unprejudiced manner, as we would want to be associated with in order to be judged-without realizing that they are constantly misunderstood by human beings and that they are moved by much the same instincts and impulses as we ourselves. They eat and sleep, seek pleasure This is the first of a series of four articles by J. Howard Moore, instructor in Ethics at Crane Technical High School, Chicago. His books, The Universal Kinship, The New Ethics, etc., have had a wide reading both in this country and abroad. and try to avoid pain, cling vigorously to life, experience health and disease, get seasick, suffer hunger and thirst, cooperate with each other, build homes, reproduce themselves, love and pro- vide for their children (feeding, defending, and educating them), contend against enemies, con- tract habits, remember and forget, learn from experience, have friends and favorites and pas- times, appreciate kindness, commit crimes, dream dreams, cry out in distress, are affected by alco- hol, opium, strychnine, and other drugs, see, hear, smell, taste, and feel, are industrious, provident and cleanly, have languages, risk their lives for others, manifest ingenuity, individuality, fidelity, affection, gratitude, heroism, sorrow, sexuality, self-control, fear, love, hate, pride, suspicion, jealousy, joy, reason, resentment, selfishness, curiosity, memory, imagination, re- morse-all of these things, and scores of others, as human beings do. Man-like Apes There are four kinds of apes that are com- monly called the man-like apes. These apes are called man-like, because in important respects they more closely resemble man than other apes do. These are the gorilla and chimpanzee of Africa, the gibbon of Southern Asia, and the orang of Borneo and Sumatra. These apes have no external tail and tend to walk more or less in an upright position, like man. In their general looks and disposition they also resemble human beings. These apes are often called the anthro- poid apes-anthropos meaning man, and oid meaning like. The anthropoid races have the same general emotions and the same general ways of expressing these emotions as human beings have. They laugh in joy, whine in distress, shed tears, pout and apologize, and get angry when they are laughed at. They stick out their lips when sulky or pouting, stare with wide-open eyes in astonishment, and look downcast when sad or insulted. When they laugh, they draw back the corners of the mouth and expose the teeth, their eyes sparkle, their lower eyelids wrinkle, and they utter chuckling sounds, just as human beings do. They have strong sympathy for their sick and wounded, and manifest toward their friends, and especially toward the members of their own family, a devotion not excelled among the lowest races of mankind. They use rude tools, such as clubs and sticks, and resort to cunning and deliberation to accomplish their ends. The orang, when pursued, will throw sticks at his pursuers; and when wounded, and the wound does not prove instantly fatal, will sometimes press his hand upon the wound or apply grass and leaves to stop the flow of blood. The children of anthropoids wrestle with each other and chase and throw each other, just as do the children of human households. The gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang, all build for themselves lodges made of broken boughs and leaves in which to sleep at night. These lodges, rude though they are, are not inferior to the habita- tions of many primitive men. The Puris, who live naked in the depths of the Brazilian forests, do not even have huts to live in, only screens made by setting up huge palm-leaves against a cross-pole. Some of the African tribes are said to live largely in caves and the crevices of rocks. This is the case with many primitive men. According to a writer in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (January, 1902), Common forms of dwelling among the wild tribes of the Malay Peninsula are rock-shelters (sometimes caves, but more commonly natural recesses under over- hanging ledges), and leaf-shelters, which are sometimes formed on the ground and some- times in the branches of trees. The simplest form of these leaf-shelters consists of a single palm-leaf planted in the ground to afford the wanderer some slight shelter for the night. When they sleep, the anthropoids sometimes lie stretched out, man-like, on their backs, and sometimes lie on their side with their hand under their head for a pillow. The orang retires about five or six o'clock in the evening, and does not rise until the morning sun has dissipated the mists of the forest. The gorilla and chimpanzee seem to mate for life. The former lives, as a rule, in single families, each family consisting of Q V F

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most