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in man and beast, that implies a separate treatment for each 

 individual, and becomes a plea for an immortality of life. I 

 am not alone in this idea. It is simply astounding how 

 Individuality in the lower animals is ignored by man. The 

 generality of grooms treat all horses as though they were 

 just so many machines turned out of the same mould, and to 

 be treated just like machines. There is in every species a 

 double kind of Individuality. One kind there is that, is 

 common to the entire species, and then there is in addition 

 to this common characteristic another that distinguishes 

 each separate being from its fellows. It is the former that 

 makes a species what it is, and there can be no doubt that 

 each will exist in the future life, and that both may be 

 capable of development. The dog, the horse, the lion and 

 the elephant, and in truth all animals that may be fitted to 

 survive, will be in the other world what they are in this. 

 They will be better animals in that world, just as we hope 

 to be better men, but they will not approach us any nearer 

 than they do in the earth-life. 



Man does not, as some are foolish enough to claim, lower 

 the condition of humanity the least by granting immortality 

 to the lower animals. If they be immortal, as the evidence 

 adduces most strongly shows, there is not the slightest use 

 of denial. We cannot shirk a fact, and even if we could, 

 we ought not to do it. Such an argument, which seeks to 

 elevate man by depreciating his lower fellow-creatures, is not 

 very creditable to humanity. In announcing the belief that 

 the lower animals share immortality with man in the higher 

 world, as they share mortality in this, does not claim for 

 them the slightest equality. Man will be man and beast will 

 be beast, and insect will be insect, in the next world as they 

 are in this. They are living exponents of Divine Ideas, as 

 is evident from the Scriptures and the teachings of science, 

 and will be wanted to continue in the world of spirit the 

 work which they have begun in the world of matter'. True it 

 is, as has been asserted, that because a man can transmit his 



