NATURAL THEOLOGY 121 



can result only from such a substance in man, they 

 can result only from such a substance in lower ani- 

 mals. 



The only difficulty arising with the immaterialist, 

 who is influenced by the wrong interpretation of 

 theology, is to know how to dispose of the animal 

 soul on the dissolution of the body. He cannot 

 conceive of the annihilation of an incorruptible, im- 

 material substance like thought and sensation, ac- 

 cording to his own theory, and should admit that, 

 as the faculty of intelligence is discernible in lower 

 animals as well as in man, if this principle is im- 

 mortal in the one it must be in the other, which is 

 the only proper solution of the question. 



