Il8 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



dog and say, "Carlo, go and drive the chickens 

 from the garden." He, also, cheerfully obeys my 

 command, and then returns looking wistfully into 

 my face, as much as to say, " I am glad to obey you 

 and make myself useful." They both suddenly die 

 and lie before me. I look into their faces and see 

 the eyes that guided their bodies ; the ears which 

 heard my voice ; the limbs which propelled their 

 bodies, and the head which contained the brain 

 over which the soul presided. The organs are all 

 there as they were but without life. Now what is 

 life ? It is that period during wiiich the body and 

 soul are united. They are not now united ; the 

 souls which were behind the nerve systems which 

 caused them to perform those acts have left their 

 bodies. Now what system of logic will sustain the 

 hypothesis that you can call the brain energy in 

 the boy one thing and in the dog another ? If that 

 mysterious substance called soul was the cause of 

 action in the one case it was in the other. What 

 has become of that substance which gave motion 

 and sensation to those bodies ? 



If the mental powers and vital essence of that 

 faithful, intelligent, and confiding dog, with its 

 memory and loving devotion can be annihilated or 



