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The most enlightened mode of instruction and the utmost patience will never teach an ape to read or talk; while we know that human beings who have been born deaf and blind and dumb have, by a wonderful process, been instructed in many of the glorious truths which can give joy and satisfaction to the soul of man."
The ape he had bought from some captives who had returned from Barbary; and he had soon taught him the tricks which made people think he was really divining things. Before entering a village the clever galley-slave would learn all he could about its inhabitants; and being blessed with a remarkable memory, he seldom had any difficulty in making the ape's feat seem impressive to the masses.
That part of his scheme was crude and brutal it lacked the refinement of torture that had marked the master strokes of the Paulvitch of old, when he had worked with that virtuoso of villainy, Nikolas Rokoff but it at least assured Paulvitch of immunity from responsibility, placing that upon the ape, who would thus also be punished for his refusal longer to support the Russian.
Reason, which gets so much vulgar glorification, is, after all, a secondary quality. It is posterior to imagination, it is one of the means by which imagination seeks to realize its ends. Some animals reason, or seem to do so: but the most cultivated ape or donkey has not yet composed a sonnet, or a symphony, or "an arrangement in green and yellow."
The existing ape that has clung closest to the direct ancestral type of our own race, it appears, is the gibbon a creature far less objectionable in that rôle because of the very paucity of his human characteristics, as revealed to the casual observer.
"You do not know, then, what passed last night?" "I? I can only guess that Vavasour has had one of his rages." "Then you must know," said Campbell with an effort; "for you must explain all to Scoutbush when he returns; and I know no one more fit for the office." And he briefly told him the story. Mellot was much affected. "The wretched ape!
Here's the divining ape and the show of the Release of Melisendra just coming." "Ods body!" said the landlord, "why, it's Master Pedro! We're in for a grand night!" I forgot to mention that the said Master Pedro had his left eye and nearly half his cheek covered with a patch of green taffety, showing that something ailed all that side.
A shadow swung slowly across the ground beside him, and looking up, the ape-man saw Ska, the vulture, wheeling a wide circle above him. The grim and persistent harbinger of evil aroused the man to renewed determination. He arose and approached the edge of the canyon, and then, wheeling, with his face turned upward toward the circling bird of prey, he bellowed forth the challenge of the bull ape.
It is as a grotesque shadow of Loki, but still it is his. The Germans say the devil is God's ape; the Indian Lox is the Norse devil's. How Lox told a Lie. Lox had a brother, who had married a red squaw. When she was touched the red color rubbed off. The brother kept this wife in a box. One day, returning, the brother saw that Lox had red fingers.
Wilt thou sell it me for that sum? Answered the monkey-merchant, 'It is a bargain; and Allah give thee a blessing of him! So he made over the beast and received his money; and the Shaykh's slaves took the ape and tied him up in the ship.
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