I$2 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



more directly with the creature under the law gov- 

 erning instinct than any known law in the great 

 cosmos. 



Instinct is the highest attribute God possesses, 

 and a man who would deny that it is immortal, 

 could with the same consistency, deny that the om- 

 niscience, omnipotence, or any other attribute of 

 God, is immortal. Instinct is so closely interwoven 

 with all the phenomena we see and know around 

 us, that if it is not an immortal attribute of God, we 

 know of nothing that is. It is knowledge from 

 God, directly imparted to animals, not once, but 

 continually ; and we do not know where it begins 

 nor where it ends. 



It is claimed by theology that the innate idea 

 of immortality is instinctive in man, as it exists in 

 some rude form or other even where individuals 

 and nations have never heard of it through man. 



Now as animals are endowed with instinct 

 superior to man, they may have an instinctive idea 

 revealed to them that they too are immortal. Who 

 knows that they have not ? The fact that a man 

 desires immortality gives him no better assurance 

 of it than if he did not desire it, provided there is 

 no provision for him. Every man desires comforts 



