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shape of beasts, higher than any known to this little mundane sphere. If not,, 

 from whence came the " four beasts in the midst of the throne and around about 

 the throne of God who fell down with the four-and-twenty elders and v/orshipped 

 the lamb." 



He further assumes that the inferior order of organisms, governed, directed 

 and moved in all their actions by what he is pleased to call instinct, must forever 

 perish and never exist in any form whatever in the great hereafter. And that too 

 after having lived and done many wonderful things to challenge his admiration, 

 which he with all his inventive power and boasted reason has failed to duplicate 

 or even successfully imitate. But who has analyzed instinct, or what writer or 

 thinker has defined the line of demarkation between instinct, and reason or has 

 said where the one ends and the other begins. A distinguished mental philoso- 

 pher has told us "the will is the fulcrum, the prop, and the whole moving power 

 of the intellect. Upon this and other as good authority we maintain that all or- 

 ganisms, from the animalcule to man and in common with him, have more or less 

 will power which demonstrates the claim of all animal life to a portion, great or 

 small, of mind. The diminutive insect, before it raises its tiny wings at the ap- 

 proach of danger and flies away, must first will to do this voluntary act. The 

 lowest order of animal life that moves and sustains existence and carries out the 

 objects of their being could do none of these things without exercising some will 

 power. 



All animal life has the will power necessary for more or less self-preser- 

 vation and the perpetuation of their kind, which proves them in possession of 

 some mind and an emanation from the great source and fountain of mind and as 

 eternal as its source. Nor does it matter whether we find mind in the ponderous 

 brains of a Webster or a Cuvier or in the scarcely perceptible nervous ceAtre of 

 the lowest order of organism, it is mind according to all rules of logic, and only 

 differs in quantity or degree. What then becomes of this vast amount of mind 

 when the frail and ephemeral tenements that hold them decay? The indestructi- 

 bility of mind is an axiomatic truth, therefore it must exist in some form some- 

 where. Does it return to its author to be implanted in a new and improved form 

 and returned to its former home and rise by gradual progression ? Does it take 

 its flight in obedience to some occult law through space to another portion 

 of the physical Universe which the great moral force has prepared, an im- 

 provement upon this for the culture, education and expansion of these infinitesi- 

 mal portions of mind to remain in a state of tutelage, improving and expanding 

 for a higher state of existence when he will again transplant it to a still higher • 

 sphere and thus educate it up by regular gradation until it shall have attained the 

 intellectual and moral power of the ''four beasts in and around the throne worship- 

 ing the lamb." Or, is it started at once in its feeble and imperfect condition on a 

 career in the great eternity of the future ? 



These are questions that do not belong to the domain of reason or philoso^ , 

 phy; nor has revealed revelation thrown any light upon them, and the revela 

 tions of advanced science have as yet failed to make them clear. 



