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of the spiritual universe and limit God's benefi- 

 cence to a fractional part of His creation must 

 be abandoned, together with all other narrow, 

 absurd doctrines, if theology expects to keep up 

 with modern philosophy. 



While the subject of the immortality of animals 

 is not new, yet I know of no attempt to treat it, as 

 I have done, from the hypothesis of revealed and 

 natural theology. 



By revealed theology we have been taught to be- 

 lieve in the immortality of the soul. Existence, in 

 the case of man, has been considered by the Church 

 from its very foundation, indestructible, and it 

 is not my purpose to dwell on what is now consid- 

 ered common orthodoxy. The Church teaches that 

 man and the lower animals have to die, that all souls 

 are immortal, and that all men have souls. This be- 

 ing admitted I am required only to prove that 

 lower animals have souls. 



The main philosophical hypothesis I present is 

 that the same analogy of logic which can be 

 adduced to demonstrate the fact that men have 

 souls will apply to lower animals. In dealing with 

 the subject it is well at the beginning to define 

 the meaning of some words. 



