Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Fish Have No Souls. [ARTICLE]

Fish Have No Souls.

The Moslems, like the Jews, were commanded not to make images of anything in heaven or in earth, and Mohammed added: “Therefore, if ye mu t make images, make images of things which have no souls, sueh as tr es or plants.” His Sunnite followers have never transgressed this rule, and their friezes and capitals and paneling are either in geometrical patterns, or are ornamented with symmetrically twined boughs and leaves. The Hindu, on the other hand, never loses an opportunity of introducing gods, elephants, tigers, horses and birds—anything living that he can think of except fish; for fish have no souls, and the believer in the transmigration of the spirit eats fish with impunity, though he would die rather than eat beef, and has religious scruples with game.—The Century.