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capable of existence forever, nothing therefore can 

 possibly preclude the souls of animals from that 

 perpetual state to come but a fundamental destruc- 

 tion, for they must continue through all revolutions 

 of future ages, unless the Creator who made them 

 shall see fit to doom them to annihilation. 



That the soul is endowed with a capacity for a 

 state of separate existence after the death of 

 the corporal frame to which it is attached is a 

 conclusion clearly deduced from both revealed and 

 natural theology. 



The brain, being the centre of the nervous system, 

 is the seat of the soul and is the instrument which 

 is employed in all its operations. Though the soul 

 is not matter, yet it works through the means 

 of matter. We say that the eye sees, but the 

 eye cannot see, it is the mere instrument of vision, 

 and is no more to a man than a telescope or micro- 

 scope. The ear is not hearing, but the organ of hear- 

 ing ; so the brain is not soul, but the organ of the 

 soul by which it works through its different faculties. 



To illustrate, I say to a boy, " John, please go and 

 drive the chickens from the garden." He obeys me 

 and then returns feeling proud of having done me 

 a favor. The chickens soon return, so I call my 



