192 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



animals while in the full possession of the faculties 

 of their souls. They have laid bare the nerves and 

 then burned them with currents of electricity which 

 is the most agonizing torture that can be imagined. 

 All this has been done to learn something of the 

 phenomena of life, and what has been the result ? 

 Thev have become so accustomed to material anat- 

 omy that they imagine that a thing does not 

 exist unless they can show it on the point of their 

 lancet or scalpel. Now can a materialist show an 

 idea upon the point of his lancet ? Or can he show 

 a thought on the point of his scalpel ? In measur- 

 ing the various parts of the body can he measure 

 off an inch of love, a foot of anger, or a yard of 

 jealousy ? Can he locate, in that innocent, bloody 

 piece of flesh before him, in the form of a dog, 

 where that true and everlasting love it has for its 

 master is to be found ? 



We are glad to know however, that a large ma- 

 jority of our best physiologists are not vivisection- 

 ists nor materialists, but believe that there is a 

 controlling agency or vital principle distinct from 

 the organization of the body, and are not guilty of 

 experimenting with the suffering of any living being. 



Dr. J. L. Brachet, a cruel physiologist of Paris, 



