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the mental faculties until the very last breath. 

 Often we see the most astonishing powers of mind, 

 the clearest discernment and judgment inhabiting a 

 wretched, weak, and decayed body. Now if this 

 argument proves anything for man's immortality 

 it proves as much for lower animals who retain 

 their mental faculties to the last moment when 

 dying from injury, disease, or old age. 



It often happens on the approach of death, when 

 the body has really commenced to decay, that the 

 soul is perfect in all its conceptions and oftentimes 

 surpasses its greatest powers when in health. 



Physiologists have been making unnecessary and 

 cruel experiments on man and animals for the last 

 two or three centuries to satisfy their morbid curi- 

 osities. They have dissected every part of the body 

 which can be dissected while living, and every part 

 of the body after death which could not be done 

 before. They have caused every conceivable man- 

 ner of torment that the devilish nature of a man 

 could invent. They have traced every nerve, 

 artery, muscle, fibre, and vessel. They have tor- 

 tured to death by mutilating, cutting, burning, 

 hanging, and drowning by a gradual process ; they 

 have roasted, frozen, boiled, and skinned the poor 



