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life my father was constantly receiving letters warmly 

 thanking him for the book, and embodying further 

 facts and anecdotes for his use in the event of a 

 revised edition. 



This I have reason to believe my father had in 

 contemplation during the closing years of his life. 

 His working copy of " Man and Beast " is filled with 

 letters from friends and manuscript notes of his own, 

 and he had clearly been collecting material for addi- 

 tions and improvements. And gummed upon the title- 

 page is a printed extract from some religious magazine 

 which struck him very deeply, and to which he often 

 referred in the course of conversation. It refers to 

 the original Hebrew of the term translated in our ver- 

 sion as "living soul." 



Certain of King James's translators (it says) . . . have 

 rendered the Hebrew word "nephesh," soul, when referring to 

 man, quite literally. The fact that the same word is applied to 

 animals is covered up, or concealed, to all who are not Hebrew 

 scholars, other words being substituted for it, such as "life," or 

 " creature." 



In Genesis i. 30, "To every beast of the earth, and to every 

 fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth 

 wherein there is life " ; the Hebrew words are " nephesh chaiyali," 

 a living soul. Also in Genesis i. 20, " Let the waters bring forth 

 abundantly the moving creature that hath life" ; literally, a living 

 soul. 



Ten times is the Hebrew of "living soul " found in the first nine 

 chapters of Genesis, and only once, when it refers to man, is it 

 literally translated. In nine other instances, when it refers to the 

 lower orders of creation, is the fact carefully concealed from the 

 readers of the English version. In seven of the nine instances it is 

 Jehovah who uses this unorthodox language. 



