CHAPTER VII 



NATURAL THEOLOGY — PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOUL 



The lower animals have souls for the same reason that mankind 

 have souls — Scientific reasons for believing in the immortality of 

 animals — Materialism and immaterialism. 



While the Bible fully declares the immortality 

 of animals, natural theolog} 7 just as fully substan- 

 tiates the same fact. One thing, however, is certain : 

 if the immortality of animals cannot be demon- 

 strated, the contrary cannot. To say that when a 

 house has fallen and is in ruins, it once had an in- 

 habitant, and that he escaped out of it and lives in 

 some other place, can involve no contradiction; but 

 to say that the soul of an animal, when it leaves the 

 body, has found a new and better place, may involve 

 a question. There are some things readily ad- 

 mitted, without an argument, while other things 

 cannot be impressed upon the mind without being 

 analyzed and presented in a logical form. 



I attempt to prove by plain and simple proposi- 

 tions that if men have souls lower animals have 



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