128 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



My investigation has led me to believe that 

 the soul has its headquarters in the highest 

 forms of matter in each animal. The brain 

 organ whether in high or low species, whether 

 intricate or simple, is used for its office. In the 

 higher species of animals, the soul makes its head- 

 quarters in the cerebrum of the brain, and directs the 

 movements of the body as long as life lasts. When 

 one part of the cerebrum is destroyed, the soul occu- 

 pies the remaining part, and when both hemispheres 

 are removed, as can be done without destroying 

 life in some animals, it establishes its offices in the 

 cerebellum. In a very few animals the cerebel- 

 lum may be removed without immediate death, 

 and the soul would then make its last move to 

 the medulla oblongata. 



An animal may be dissected alive, limb after 

 limb, muscle after muscle, nerve after nerve, as 

 some cruel anatomists have done, until but little of 

 the agonizing bloody form is left, and the sou), 

 faithful to its trust, will remain until the merciful 

 angel appears and cries out " it is enough, come up 

 higher." As the destruction of the functions of the 

 ear will not destroy sound, as the destruction of the 

 eye will not destroy light, so the destruction of the 



