The Immortality of Animals 



CHAPTER I 



INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE — CREATION 



Revealed theology — Definition of words — Bible definition of soul 

 — It belongs alike to man and lower animals — God has decreed 

 that all creatures that possess the breath of life shall live forever. 



Whether death terminates the existence of ani- 

 mal life or gives to that existence a new and more 

 vigorous impulse in another world, is a question 

 which has undergone various changes in different 

 epochs of theological history. But sages and phi- 

 losophers of all ages have taught that man and the 

 lower animals are animated by some higher prin- 

 ciple than mere matter and motion, and that the 

 principle called soul, or mind, is independent of the 

 body, and is immaterial and immortal. The word 

 soul in its original signification stood for the prin- 

 ciples which govern life both in man and the lower 



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