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Of course, an accident so severe told very greatly 

 upon his literary work. He could not write for many 

 months save slowly and laboriously with his left hand 

 and he suffered under the additional misfortune of 

 being utterly unable to dictate to an amanuensis. So 

 that until the damaged hand recovered something of 

 its former usefulness, the supply of manuscript practi- 

 cally ceased. Most fortunately he had taken out a 

 policy in an accident insurance company, and was able 

 to claim the allowance for total disablement ; for it was 

 not until the following year that he was able to earn 

 anything by his pen. 



As soon as he could again set to work, however, he 

 began to write "Man and Beast, Here and Hereafter," 

 an examination into the question of the mortality or 

 immortality of the lower animals. The matter was one 

 which for a very long period had occupied his thoughts ; 

 probably since the time when, in reading for his examina- 

 tion for Holy Orders, he had studied Bishop Butler's 

 well-known "Analogy of Revealed Religion. " For 

 no less than fifteen years he had actually been accu- 

 mulating materials for the book. And now he set 

 himself to arrange his masses of notes and corre- 

 spondence into something like order, and to write the 

 book itself. 



This he did upon a somewhat singular plan. Him- 

 self a firm believer in the immortality of animals, a& 

 many others had been before him, he first entered into 

 a careful examination of the Scriptural evidence for and 

 against the proposition, and showed that most of the 



