HUMAN LIFE 



THE BIOLOGIST AND SOUL 



BUT, I say again, the biologist who is 

 not a bigot cannot authoritatively and 

 hence will not try to affirm that there 

 cannot be human immortality. He sim- 

 ply remains agnostic. He does not know. 



Then there is the cognate matter of 

 soul in the living body. The biologist 

 sometimes has a difficult time trying to 

 understand what other people understand 

 by soul. If sweetness of disposition or 

 amiability of character is a symptom of 

 soul, as he is told by some, then he finds 

 soul in many animals. I had two taran- 

 tulas once in my laboratory, one of which 

 was a morose, ugly-tempered brute who, 

 whenever I approached him with playful 

 finger, became angry and, rearing on his 

 hinder two pairs of legs and unfolding his 

 great poison fangs, made ready to lunge 

 and strike whenever his malicious intel- 

 ligence assured him that he could reach 

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