Life, 1902-07-10 · page 5 of 18
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 29 **Top Cartoon ("Birds of Pray"):** This satirical illustration depicts religious and political figures riding horses while carrying banners labeled "Panama" and other text. The title "Birds of Pray" is a pun on "birds of prey." It critiques what appears to be religious leaders or politicians using humanitarian/Christian arguments to justify imperialist positions on the Panama Canal route—suggesting they're predatory despite religious rhetoric. **Bottom Section ("Immortality"):** This discusses Chicago's court decision that author Honoré de Balzac is immortal, mocking the absurdity of declaring a long-dead person "immortal." The satire questions critical standards and suggests nature itself is "immoral," critiquing those who claim to live naturally. The page satirizes hypocrisy in both imperial policy and literary criticism.
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29 Considerations. HE assurance that Senator Hanna favors the Panama route will be heard with relief by the serious-minded, implying as it does that considerations of humanity and Christianity do not enter here. Considerations of humanity and Christianity are doing about all that can reasonably be expected of them in determining our Oriental policy. To imposo on them the further task of affecting our attitude touching the isthmian canal were imprudent. By the by, wo are getting a grasp of this Eastern question. There probably is not an editorial writer in the country, of any im- portance, who does not now know whether it is two p's or two I's that “ Philippines’? contains, A Man’s Wild Sum- mer Scheme. “ELARRET: What shall I say in this adver- tisement for board in the country ? Harry: Well, say wo want a place where there are no flies, chickens or children, no piano, nor melodeon, no other board- ers, and where we won't ever have to dress up or associate with the family, BIRDS OF PRAY, TUE SAME YESTERDAY TO-DAY AND POREVER. Immorality. HICAGO'S decision that Balzac is immoral bas the importance of intrinsic merit. Moreover, 7 coming as it did in the very midst of the teamsters’ strike, it leaves no reasonable doubt about the highest critical faculty being, after all, mostly independent of the fresh meat supply, something which it is good ‘for belles-lettres to have settled. But it is not easy to shake off the suspicion that the worst is being kept from us. Balzac holds the mirror up to nature; the ES 3 ordinary mind hurries to the awful thought that FEE nature, therefore, is immoral. Ts “ Quite a few people have in late years fallen ON THE FIFTH DAY. into the way of trying to live close to nature, “M#4LLT.1 wism 1 miouT consuLtT MY Pure If nature is immoral, these people ought to be NC#NA MOMENT. £ womnER ir us wort 7 * ADVISE ME TO CONTINUE TAKING TURSE ‘APPRS notified. Otherwise they will innocently get themselves talked about. ‘TIZING MITTERS’ EVERY THREE nouns?” comicbooks.com