CRUEL ANATOMISTS 1 87 



ing removed, she kept her eyes fixed on it, and 

 commenced a wailing cry, which seemed rather to 

 proceed from the loss of her young than a sense 

 of her own torment. We may well blush to con- 

 trast the cruelty of the man with the loving de- 

 votion of the dog. The greatest agony which the 

 body can endure is sustained for the sake of love, 

 which is the strongest faculty of the soul. 



That the mechanism of the nervous system is 

 governed by an independent, immaterial power is 

 well established in the phenomena of the allied 

 spiritual forces known as hypnotism, animal mag- 

 netism, and mesmerism, which proves that there is 

 a spiritual nature in all animal life independent of 

 the physical. All these spiritual forces can be con- 

 veyed by and to lower animals as well as to man. 



Dreaming, which is common to both man and 

 lower animals, is another proof that all animals 

 have souls. Sleep is not the extinction but a sus- 

 pension of some of the faculties which extend to 

 the body. The soul continues its activity, and 

 when the body awakes the two continue as before 

 to act together. 



Death is called falling asleep, which is an appro- 

 priate illustration as, in either case, it is not the 



