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we are told it is being entertained by the angels, 

 which is probably true. But I have observed the 

 same manifestations in the faces of kittens, puppies, 

 and other animals, and I must attribute the same 

 phenomena of soul in the one case as in the other, 

 which affords a strong ground for the assertion that 

 lower animals possess an inward sense analogous 

 to the faculty of man. 



It seems to be a well-established fact that the 

 mind or soul never does and never can exist with- 

 out thinking. Hence while asleep the mind has 

 ideas of memory, ideas of consciousness, ideas of 

 imagination, and ideas of reasoning, which are 

 some of the most important faculties of the soul, 

 and are manifested in dreaming with as much 

 prominence in animals as man. In dreaming, the 

 vital force is independent of matter, and conse- 

 quently shows that it proceeds from the faculty of 

 the soul. 



There is another state of the body which bears 

 a close resemblance to dreaming, which is called 

 reverie, in which the mind is so engrossed upon 

 some particular train of thought that the person is 

 oblivious to everything else. The attention may 

 be so completely fixed upon one object that there 



