The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.Smile, R. Elton
Science
The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.
Smile, R. Elton
Science fiction, American
“‘That the cause of this ferocious degeneration, which has the power of
transforming woman from the glorious ideal of immortality, into an
object too repulsive for her destroyer to find in his vocabulary words
of beastly vulgarity sufficiently strong in the odor of putrefactive
designation for expressing in comparison the foulness of his scorn, is
derived from man’s insatiate devisement, cannot be denied! For the
exampled amendment of this woful cause of degeneration, we have provided
family censors, and nurses, in sufficient number for present
requirement, whose duty it will be to hold in check parental
indiscretions, and mutations incited from the instinctive variations of
fondness and petulance. With the close of the second year, the
provisorial charge of the family censor and nurse will be transferred
with the infant to the national school of the department in which they
reside, their guardian duties continuing until the seventh year, at the
commencement of which the child is matriculated as a pupil, with full
scholastic adoption by the censors and teachers. For the additional
furtherance of our system, subserving for the vindication of creative
indications for the elimination of our immortal endowment, we have
separated the sexes that in the process of educational attainment they
may remain free from the natural temptations inherent with instinct.
“‘The benefits conferred by our national system of education you have
realized in the peaceful confidence and unity imparted in after
association; also the sequent inseparable unity of our marriage
conjunctions. In truth, they are happily too apparent to be gainsaid. So
that in accepting our hospitality as guests, you cannot avoid, in
courtesy, a willing recognition of our rights of freehold preëmption,
for preserving our habits and customs of purity and goodness, intact
from the infringements of foreign attaint; or question the justice of
our privilege of enforcing their observance; or in default, question our
corrective enactments devised for the culprit’s realization of practical
liabilities incurred by the transgressor. These will be strictly
enforced. But that there may be no cavilings, with the hue and cry of
barbarous excess in punishment, we have provided accommodations adapted
to the specie degradation of the lower orders of animal instinct, of
sufficient capacity for associate occupation by human emulators of
bestiality in kind; through all the gradations from the _omnium
gatherum_ ‘swine,’ blood thirsty ‘tiger,’ down to the reptile
conservators of poison. For the correction of women who have lapsed from
their vocation of conservators of purity and goodness, into the
incipient stages of gadding and gossiping detraction, we have provided
cage apartments for their mutual accommodation with birds representing
their kind, in the hopping vent of thoughtless words. We have provided
for initiatory correction pavonias (animalculan peacocks) for the
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