114 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



Therefore if life existed before organization, it could 

 certainly exist outside and after dissolution. 



When the soul is disengaged from the gross 

 matter, which now incloses and encumbers it, may 

 it not become veiled in its own fine vehicle and, 

 being freed from the laws governing the body, 

 assume the laws which govern the immaterial 

 universe and be conveyed to some prepared state 

 or place of future abode ? 



It is a sad fact that there are many mysteries 

 which cluster around this abstruse subject and 

 remain locked in the bosom of the Creator, and are 

 as inscrutable to the sage as to the savage ; to the 

 philosopher as to the schoolboy. No doubt they 

 are hidden for a purpose, and what little we can 

 know of this great cosmos should convince us of 

 man's ignorance and weakness when compared 

 with the great First Cause of all things. 



A chemist may decompose blood, gelatine, bone 

 or any constituent part of the body, but he cannot 

 reform one of them. The vital laws, or organic 

 forces, form compounds which can never be pro- 

 duced by chemical amnit}^. He can no more make 

 a piece of bone than he can make a diamond. It 

 requires a higher intelligence than that of a finite 



