120 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



thought no longer recognizes man and lower 

 animals a difference of kind, but only a difference 

 of degree, and sees the principle of intelligence de- 

 veloping throughout an endless and unbroken 

 series." 



Man can never find his true place in the universe 

 until he recognizes that lower animals are fellow- 

 creatures and, though created inferior in intellect, 

 yet possess all the germs of the intellectual faculties 

 of man. It is somewhat amusing and yet sad to 

 observe the different opinions of scientists on the 

 subject of biology and psychology. The material- 

 ist, who traces the origin of sensation and thought 

 from a mere modification of common matter, refers 

 the perceptions and reflections of lower animals to 

 the same principle which produces them in man. 



The immaterialist, on the contrary, who con- 

 ceives that mere matter is incapable, under any 

 modification, of producing sensation and thought, 

 is under the necessity of supplying to every rank 

 of being possessing these powers, the existence of 

 another and of a very different substance combined 

 with it ; a substance not subject to the changes and 

 infirmities of matter, and altogether impalpable 

 and incorruptible. Now if sensation and thought 



