210 SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATIONS [Man 



projected through a prism. If so projected, a line across the 

 spectral image results, of certain specific size and also colour ; 

 but if the light of a burning mass of metal be transmitted 

 through its own vapours, then the band of colour it would have 

 yielded on the spectrum is quenched as to colour, and the result 

 is not colour but black. Now we say that this is something 

 like the difference which there is between man alone and man 

 in society. Man in isolation appears only in the melancholy 

 colours of a recluse or an anchorite. But when beheld through 

 the family circle, the club, the confederation, or the great and 

 good organisations of society, he appears to a far greater advan- 

 tage, for then, instead of being gloomy, his character assumes 

 hues of beauty and splendour of variety which may gladden 

 and delight all eyes. s. N. 



A Strong Man's Deportment. 



A really capable man is always considerate of those about 

 him. He does not with fussy haste push people in all direc- 

 tions, regardless of injuries, as does the weak ambitious man. 

 He does not, like a serpent, sting those who oppose him ; nor 

 does he snarl at them like a dog. He calmly moves them out of 

 his path. In the exhibition of his power, and in his regard for 

 others, his march resembles that of a noble elephant. As the 

 elephant is conscious of its own strength, it takes every precau- 

 tion so that its heavy mass may not harm creatures that are 

 weaker than itself. If it passes through a crowd, it opens a 

 passage for itself with its trunk, and gently pressing forward its 

 fore-limbs, advances in such a manner as to hurt no one. M. 



Man the Enemy of Man. 



"While on the steppe, tigers and crocodiles contend with horses 

 and cattle, so on the forest borders and in the wilds of Guiana 

 the hand of man is ever raised against his fellow-man. With 

 revolting eagerness some tribes drink the flowing blood of their 

 foes, whilst others, seemingly unharmed, yet prepared for murder, 

 Ideal certain death with a poisoned thumb-nail. The feebler 

 tribes, when they tread the sandy shores, carefully efface with 



