CHAPTER XIV 



FUTURE ABODE OF ANIMALS — A PLURALITY OF 



WORLDS 



A new heaven and a new earth — It is to be a place and a coun- 

 try — Many worlds awaiting to be inhabited by poor fallen animals 

 — Room for all. 



Taking it for granted that animals have im- 

 mortal souls and share with man a future life, 

 the question naturally arises, where is to be their 

 eternal abode ? There are some subjects on which 

 we are obliged to exercise faith in connection with 

 evidence. Such are the subjects of time, immen- 

 sity, space, pure incorporeal intelligence, infinity, 

 matter created out of nothing, innumerable systems 

 of worlds, innumerable orders of beings, and a 

 future life. 



There may be primal causes as they appear to us 

 which are the effects of other causes that are invis- 

 ible. We sometimes know that such a thing will 

 have such an effect, or that such an effect is produced 

 by such a cause, but the manner we may not know. 



The innumerable instances of things which seem 



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