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As to us, death is to be the gate of immortality and 

 glory, so in some way to them creation includes all 

 created beings, and all creation must include our 

 nature too, in that one common groan and pang." 



The great philosopher and theologian, Bishop 

 Butler, says : " We cannot argue from the reason of 

 the thing that death is the destruction of living 

 agents. Neither can we find anything in the whole 

 analogy of nature to afford us even the slightest 

 presumption that animals ever lose their living 

 powers; much less, if it were possible, that they 

 lose them by death. The immortality of brutes 

 does not necessarily imply that they are endowed 

 with any latent capacities of a rational or moral 

 nature. The economy of the universe might re- 

 quire that there should be immortal creatures with- 

 out any capacities of this kind." 



Canon Wilberforce, in an eloquent speech before 

 a meeting of the Anti- Vivisection Society in Lon- 

 don said he believed that " these beautiful and 

 useful forms of life, which are sometimes so cruelly 

 tortured, are bound to pass over into another 

 sphere, and that in the great eternal world men 

 and animals should sink or swim together." 



Eev. Joseph Cook says : " Do not facts require us 



