“The essay was printed, Upton’s name had already flown to the utmost corners of the globe, when he read in some obscure narrative of travel that the little armadillo that can sleep without a pillow, though possessing no ganglia, was capable of the same balance and restraint as man, could control himself under all but the most violent stimuli, conceal his most poignant necessities, and smile in the presence of death. “Upton was a Scientist of the Scientists. One single exception and he would retract from his position. He sailed for the Amazon, interviewed the armadillo, but at the first pin he thrust into the fleshy portion of the animal’s steaks, a little below the armoured belt, it belied the false report by turning savagely round and biting off his head. His remains were reverently brought home to London. He lies in Westminster Abbey, the last and perhaps the greatest of martyrs to scientific truth. “If Henry Upton’s immortal achievement seems for a moment to have broken down the very keystone in the arch of social progress, and to have made null the whole structure of biological truth; if it leaves Man no longer propped up by a knowledge of cousinship and brotherhood with the beasts of the field, but all alone, an exile upon earth, nevertheless we must take courage. The Bishop of Shoreham has told us (Etc., etc., etc.).” _Printed by_ MORRISON & GIBB LIMITED _Edinburgh_ FOOTNOTES: [1] Dollars, not pounds. [2] He did. [3] [Greek: ... mega sthenos Ôkeanoio Antyga par pymatên sakeos pyka poiêtoio.] [4] I refer to Mr. Bulge, and I refer to him both as an actor and as an author. Amen. [5] There are two such farthings in the Heygate family to-day. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or alternate spelling that may have been in use at the time of publication has been retained. End of Project Gutenberg's A Change in the Cabinet, by Hilaire Belloc