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would emphasize his objection to their presence by pelting 

 them with stones and such other missiles as were convenient 

 to hand. That he had a considerable affection for his master, 

 and respected him, no stronger evidence could be given than 

 what has already been adduced. 



After all that has been said concerning Jack, yet the world 

 is full of people, educated and intelligent as they consider 

 themselves to be, who cannot see that this bit of flesh and 

 spirit has been endowed by the same wise Creator with the 

 same traits of character, but differing in degree, that they 

 themselves possess. Going back to the ingenuity which 

 Jack displayed in the cases of the cage and the strap referred 

 to, it may be said to his credit that even Baron Trench him- 

 self could not have shown greater skill in the discovery of 

 the weak parts of his prison and bonds than did this so-called 

 brute, nor could he have exhibited more patience and perse- 

 verance in working at them. Indeed, there are many human 

 beings that would not have been half so sensible as Jack, 

 but still we must believe that such high intelligence, com- 

 paratively speaking, must inevitably perish with the body, 

 through which as a vehicle it was made to manifest itself. 

 All intelligence is an emanation from the Divine Intelligence, 

 and, when the life has gone out of the body from which it 

 was made to shine forth, then it, instead of perishing with 

 the material, returns to the Source of all intelligence, not 

 to be re-absorbed, but, as I think, to continue as a separate 

 intelligence, drawing its life and light from the great Central 

 Head, like as the planets derive theirs from the centre of our 

 material universe the Sun. 



