Article #110 - Unknown Subject

Miss Editress

From the Moon

            Residing as I do on your satellite the Moon, a letter from me will doubtless be somewhat unexpected. You are already doubting My Identity you have imbibed the false Notion spread amongst many at your land that this Wourld [sic] of ours is a dark opake [sic] Body and not a living soul inhabits it. Much less that any one should venture a communication on the new refined electric telegraph that circulates intelligence throughout the Multiplicity of Wourlds.

            Well I tell you What it is, first our wourld is densely populated. This you might have

known if you had studied the nature of the material substances on your own planet

You would find it everywhere teeming with life, proving that wherever there is matter

there is life at hand and Intelligence abounding

            We have the opportunity of viewing you impartially (and when we have the opportunity

of communicating with you somewhat on the principle of your clairvoiants [sic] reading off

communications from other spheres) we are Bound by our Morality (which is of the highest order and pure as that wisdom that propels the universe) to preach the truth without dissimulation. Well in the first place we see clearly that all animated life stands on an equal Basis from the smallest animalcule through the whole range of animal life to Man as you term yourselves and we see each and all of them exercising their minds in accordance with the measure

bestowed on them and enjoying life as much as you and yet you would fain believe they are all nonentities in mental abilities formed for you to be used abused Murdered and even eat up to Sustain your race and satiate your [??] appetites. Should any of you fall into the habit of

killing and eating his Brother you would say he was a Cannible [sic]. Cannibles then we say you are every one of you for we see no difference between your slaughtering of the peaceful lamb the patient ox or any of their kind and feasting on their flesh than if it were the flesh of human

kind. And we see clearly too that it is of no advantage to you but to the contrary. There is a

provision in nature for the gratification of all the wants of her children without their preying on one another. Man can draw his nourishment from the vegetable wourld. And he receives the germ of life pure and undefiled not so when feasting on the flesh of his kind. The nutritious Master [??] to him second handed from the vegetable kingdom and is frequently contaminated by disease. “Man feasts the animals he dooms his feasts.” There is a great loss in it for about half the labor

that you now find necessary to support yourselves as a race would suffice your reasonable Wants Would you but leave off being Canibles.

            We see with great regret Men Murdering one another by thousands & that is called heroic as it is the fate of War. I should [??] kill another in cold blood the Brand of Cain is put upon him

We see large classes of Men toiling for the Benefit of others and they themselves too claimed

as property. We see the great Blessings of life turned into a deadly poison and the Community

drugged with it as with the inhalations of a upas tree. We see the great domain of your planet seized upon by a few and called their own & the great masses of society are deprived of their natural [??] strike at wrong practices whether found among the high or lowly all are one