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sink into nonentity at death, what philosophical 

 proof or probable evidence can be adduced to show 

 that the boy shall live after the death of the body ? 

 There has been no change in the constituent parts 

 of man and animals since the creation, and what we 

 find now is the same that the Creator first gave to 

 each. 



Scientists who advocate the theory of organic 

 evolution admit that all the germs of all the moral 

 and mental faculties of man are contained in the 

 lower animals, and that the vital force, the Bible 

 term for which is soul, is as much a part of lower 

 animals as of man. 



Huxley says : " I hold that the nature of the 

 physical and mental faculties of brutes applies in 

 its fulness and entirety to man. The conscious- 

 ness possessed by lower animals is that sort of con- 

 sciousness which we have ourselves, and fore- 

 shadows more or less those feelings which are 

 possessed by mankind." 



Darwin says : " The sense, intuitions and various 

 emotions and faculties of which man boasts, may 

 be found in an incipient or even sometimes in a 

 well-developed condition in the lower animals." 



Biichner says : " The standpoint of modern 



