CHAPTER XII 



CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF ANIMALS — CRUEL 

 ANATOMISTS 



All animals composed of like substances — Subject to same 

 emotions and influenced by like causes — A better day coming for 

 their sad condition — God will hear their cries. 



Physiologists have analyzed the brains of man 

 and of the lower animals and have found that 

 there is no distinction either on the surface or in 

 the interior of the cerebrum, cerebellum, medulla 

 oblongata or spinal cord, as there is a continuous 

 tract of the gray and white matter which is made 

 up of an assemblage of ganglia which has no ex- 

 ternal or internal distinction. In man as well as 

 in the lower animals the brain is a prolongation of 

 the spinal marrow and the skull is the prolongation 

 of the vertebral column. 



Brain matter, like gold, is the same, it matters 

 not where you find it or in what proportions, 

 whether in man or lower animals, whether in large 

 or small quantities. 



The mysterious pineal gland, a small heart- 



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