The Lion will Speak

The Lion will Speak

1990 7 July 1990 The Lion will Speak (337) “Until lions can speak, the only history will be that of the hunters.”

A man kills a lion. Or he puts it into a cage. To justify these acts, the man says, “The lion is a ferocious animal. It is a beast, etc.” All such statements, however, are one-sided. We have yet to hear what the lion has to say, for in spite of all its boldness and grandeur, the lion has not the ability to speak.

Africa being a country of lions, its jungles have the greatest numbers of these animals. It naturally also has the greatest number of sayings connected with the lion. One of them goes like this:

“Until lions can speak, the only history will be that of the hunters.”

The same, in a broader sense, is true in the case of man. In the present world, for a variety of reasons, the real facts remain muted, like the lion. All the important truths remain hidden. Statements with no reality behind them are regularly published by the newspapers. People say one thing, mean another. Facts are written up in books and magazine articles as their writers want to present them, whether true or not. Those who can just be glib enough are the centre stage heroes of conferences and meetings. It is no wonder the truth is lost in the superfluity of words. Reality does no speak.