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Beau and translated by Preston William Slosson. 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matter at New York,N.Y.  \u003Cbr>Postoffice,February 23,1909.under aet of July 16,1894   |\n| --- |\n| A DEFENSE OF CANNIBALISM  \u003Cbr>ORBIS  \u003Cbr>CONCORDIAM)  \u003Cbr>By  \u003Cbr>B.BEAU  \u003Cbr>Translated from LA REVUE of February 15,1909  \u003Cbr>By  \u003Cbr>PRESTON WILLIAM SLOSSON  \u003Cbr>MAY,1914,No.78   |\n| American Association for International Conciliation  \u003Cbr>Sub-station 84(407 West 117th Street)  \u003Cbr>New York City   |\n\nCQUNCIL OF DIRECTION OF THE  \n# AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION\n\nLYMAN ABBOTT,NEw YoRK,CLARENCE H.MACEAY,NEw Yogr.CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS,BoSTON.THEODORE MARBURG,BALTIMORE,MD.EDWIN A.ALDERMAN,CEARLOTTESVILLE,VA.BRANDER MATTHEWS,NEw YoRK.ROBERT BACON,NEw YoRK,SILAS McBEE,NEw YoRK,  \nGEORGE B.MCCLELLAN,PRINCETON,N.J.ANDREW J.MONTAGUE,RICHMOND,VA.W.W.MORROw,SAN FRANCIsco,CAL.LEVI P.MoRTON,NEw YoBK.STEPHEN H.OLIN,NEw YORK,HENRY S.PRITCHETT,NEw YORK.  \nRICEARD BARTHOLDT,Sr.LoUIs,Mo.  \nGEORGE BLUMENTHAL,NEw YoRK.  \nCLIFTON R.BBECKENRIDGE,FoRT SMITH,ARKANSAS.  \nWILLIAM J.BRYAN,WASHINGTON,D.C.T.E.BURTON,CLEVELAND,OHIO.NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER,NEw YORK,ANDREW CARNEGIE,NEw YORK.EDWARD CARY,NEWYORK,JoSEPH H.CHOATE,NEw YORK.RICHARDH.DANA,BoSTON,MASS.ARTHUR L.DASHER,MACON,GA.HORACE E.DEMING,NEw YORE.CHARLES W.ELIOT.CAMBRIDGE.MASs.JOHN W.FoSTER,WASHINGTON,D.C.AUSTEN G.Fox,NEw YORK.ROBERT A.FRANKS,ORANGE,N.J.ROBERT GARRETT,BALTIMORE,MD.JOHN ARTHUR GREENE,NEw YoRK.JAMES M.GREENWOOD,KANSAS CITY,Mo.W.H.HATTEN,LoNDON,WIS.FRANKLIN_H.HEAD,CHICAGo,ILL.WILLIAM J.HOLLAND,PITTSBURGH,PA.HAMILTON HOLT,NEW YORK.  \nA.V.V.RAYMOND,BUFFALO,N.Y.IRA REMSEN,BALTIMORE,MD.JAMES FORDREODES,BoSTON,MASS.HOWARD J.ROGERS,ALBANY,N.Y.ELIHU RooT,WASHINGTON,D.C.  \nJ.G.SCHURMAN,ITHACA,N.Y.  \nJAMES BROWN ScOTT,WASHINGTON,D.C.ISAAC N.SELIGMAN,NEw YoRE.  \nCHARLES HITCHCOCs SHERRILL,NEw YOBK.  \nF.J.V.SKIFF,CHICAGo,ILL.WILLIAM M.SLOANE,NEw YoRK,JAMES SPEYER,NEw YORK.OSCAR S.STRAUS,NEw YoRK,  \nMRS.MARY WooD SwIFT,BERKELEY,CAL.GEORGE W.TAYLOR,DEMOPOLIS,ALA.O.H.TITTMAN,WASHINGTON,D.C.W.H.ToLMAN,NEw YoRK.  \nCHARLEMAGNE ToWER,PHTLADELPHIA,PABENJAMTN F.TRUEBLOOp,WASHINGTON,D.C.EDWARD TUcx,PARIS,FRANCE.  \nDAVID STARR JORDAN,STANFORD UNIVERSITY,CAL.  \nGEORGE E.VINCENT,MINNEAPOLIS,MINN,WILLIAM D.WEEELWRIGHT,POETLAND,ORE.  \nJ.H.KIRKLAND,NASHVILLE,TENN.ADOLPH LEWISOHN,NEw YORK,SETE Low,NEw YoRK,  \nThe Executive Committee of the Associationfor International Conciliation wish to arouse theinterest of the American people in the progress ofthe movement for promoting international peaceand relations of comity and good fellowshipbetween nations.To this end they print andcirculate documents giving information as to theprogress of these movements,in order that indi-vidual citizens,the newspaper press,and organi-zations of various kinds may have readily availableaccurate information on these subjects.A list ofpublications will be found on page I4.  \n# A DEFENSE OF CANNIBALISM\n\n(The following curious argument,which first ap-peared in La Revue of February I5,I909,over thesignature of B.Beau,will remind the reader of cer-tain books and articles now written to prove that waris normal and inevitable and that the hope of inter-national peace is essentially chimerical.The plea ofthe Caribbean orator in favor of the time-honored in-stitution of cannibalism is forcible and would not beeasy to refute on theoretical grounds.Nevertheless,itseems,like other earnest and able arguments,to havesomehow become invalidated in the course of time.)  \nAMONG the papers of a missionary of the eigh-teenth century we once had the good fortune todiscover the following pages.It is a speech that apiai or Carib medicine man addressed to his com-patriots in protest against the anti-cannibalistic propa-ganda that the Christian was making among them.Itwill doubtless be thought that this piai speaks in afashion rather academic for a savage.Perhaps he wasa 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