88 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



inflicting, was a wholesome doctrine in those dark 

 days. 



If the souls of some of our two-legged animals 

 who have wantonly abused and tortured so many 

 of the quadrupeds should be transmigrated into 

 their forms long enough to realize the regions 

 of hell they have made for them on earth, the 

 angels of mercy would undoubtedly shout, amen ! 



Menander, a Greek writer, speaking on the sub- 

 ject of transmigration, said to Crato, " When you 

 die you will have a second existence ; therefore 

 choose what creature you would like to be, dog, 

 sheep, goat, horse, or man." To which he replied, 

 " Make me anything rather than a man, for he 

 is the only creature that prospers by injustice." 

 Though this was spoken many hundred years ago, 

 yet it is a lamentable fact that it has lost none of 

 its truth. 



The doctrine of the immortality of animals was 

 maintained by many Jewish writers and a long 

 list of ancient Christian writers could be men- 

 tioned. 



Manasseh, a noted Jewish Rabbi, in his discourse 

 on the resurrection, asserts that "dumb animals 

 will have a much happier state than they ever 



