INSTINCT IS IMMORTAL I 5 3 



and happiness here on earth, and he would naturally 

 desire that condition continued throughout all 

 eternity. 



Animals desire comforts and happiness here 

 on earth. That they have no instinct which leads 

 them to desire a continuance of these blessings in 

 another world is an assumption that no man has 

 ever proven or has any moral right to make. 



An idiot, a child, or a heathen could not have a 

 desire for immortality unless it were instinctive. 

 The intelligence of man and of lower animals is in 

 proportion to the amount and quality of instinctive 

 knowledge. All animals are, in some degree, 

 rational beings ; and the superiority of man is due, 

 not to his bodily formation, but to the great 

 variety of instincts which emanate from divine 

 wisdom. 



Instinct includes more of the faculties of man 

 than is generally admitted. Take the lowest races 

 of man, and you will observe that almost all of 

 their mental actions are instinctive, from the fact 

 that their wants are analogous to the wants of the 

 lower animals, but this does not imply that they 

 are any less entitled to a soul than some great 

 philosopher. 



