No further evidence of it is needed than the following celebrated passage from the "Moral Essay": "Arriving we know not from whence (for indeed their origins are not very clear), and successively invaded and conquered by four or five peoples from the north, south, east, and west, miscegenated, interbred, amalgamated, and commingled, the Penguins boast of the purity of their race, and with justice, for they have become a pure race.

This mixture of all mankind, red, black, yellow, and white, round-headed and long-headed, as formed in the course of ages a fairly homogeneous human family, and one which is recognisable by certain features due to a community of life and customs.
"This idea that they belong to the best race in the world, and that they are its finest family, inspires them with noble pride, indomitable courage, and a hatred for the human race.
"The life of a people is but a succession of miseries, crimes, and follies.

This is true of the Penguin nation, as of all other nations.
Save for this exception its history is admirable from beginning to end." The two classic ages of the Penguins are too well-known for me to lay stress upon them.

But what has not been sufficiently noticed is the way in which the rationalist theologians such as Canon Princeteau called into existence the unbelievers of the succeeding age.

The former employed their reason to destroy what did not seem to them, essential to their religion; they only left untouched the most rigid article of faith.