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ITEW ZEALAND. 91
MAN-EATING UNNATURAL.
Animals, only in exceptional cases, devour each other. It
was not innate barbarism, nor a monstrous heathenism, that
drove the South-Sea Islanders to eat their fellows. It may
be accounted for in the extermination of the moa-birds and
the native rats, depriving them of flesh-food. Europeans,
when shipwrecked and at the point of starvation, have laid
hold of and greedily devoured their companions.
History relates
many occurrences of this kind.
Before casting too many
stones at those " vile savages," it were well to glance at antiquity.
Donovan, in Lardner's Cyclopedia, assures us that
" our own ancestors were of the number of these cannibal
epicures."
Diodorus Siculus charges the Britons with being
anthropophagi ; and St. Jerome, living in the fifth century
of the Christian era, accuses the British tribes, not only of
a partiality for human flesh, but a " fastidious taste for certain
delicate parts of it." Gibbon brings the same accusation
against the Caledonians.
Allied by a common bond of
among
sympathy, war in Christian nations, and cannibalism
the native islanders of the Pacific, must perish together.
THEOLOGICAL CANNIBALISM.
Did you ever attend the Sunday services of the Ritualists?
What a display of millinery !
— the alb, girdle, stole, maniple,
and chasuble ; referring, it is said, to the trial and deathscene
of Jesus !
After the waving of the incense, comes the
administration of the eucharist, which eucharistic elements
are declared to be the " veritable flesh and blood of Jesus
Christ."
The Rev. Mr. Bailey, the English clergyman of Christchurch,
New Zealand, says that the " priests of a certain
order offer the sacrifice ; and such mysterious authority do
they wield, that the real body and blood become infused
into
the bread and wine upon the altar." These are the teachings
of the " Prayer-Book." At the words ;
" This is my