30 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



of corporal existence. The intelligent, immaterial, 

 and immortal part of man ; the soul. A disem- 

 bodied soul, the soul after it has left the body." 

 It gives the definition of the old Saxon word, 

 ghost, as meaning " the spirit or soul." Therefore 

 it is plain that the word soul is the best word 

 which can be used to express the immaterial part 

 of a living being. 



All other terms such as mind, will, sensation, 

 reason, volition, instinct, etc., are faculties of the 

 soul and subordinate to it, in the same way as the at- 

 tributes of God are a part of Him. Now we have 

 matter and soul as the only elements of the 

 universe, and lower animals as well as man are 

 composed of these two substances. The soul has a 

 distinct nature and it is a distinct reality from the 

 body ; a substance immaterial and essentially 

 different from matter. 



That all animals are dual beings possessing a 

 double organism, the one structure being corporal, 

 visible, and tangible, the other incorporal, invisible, 

 and intangible, is an assumption which cannot be 

 disproved. 



Man and the lower animals were made out of 

 the same chemical elements, and were given life 



