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would emphasize his objection to their presence by pelting 
them with stones and such other missiles as were convenient 
to hand. That he hada considerable affection for his master, 
and respected him, no stronger evidence could be given than 
what has already been adduced. 
After all that has been said concerning Jack, yet the world 
is full of people, educated and intelligent as they consider 
themselves to be, who cannot see that this bit of flesh and 
spirit has been endowed by the same wise Creator with the 
same traits of character, but differing in degree, that they 
themselves possess. Going back to the ingenuity which 
Jack displayed in the cases of the cage and the strap referred 
to, it may be said to his credit that even Baron Trench him- 
self could not have shown greater skill in the discovery of 
the weak parts of his prison and bonds than did this so-called 
brute, nor could he have exhibited more patience and perse- 
verance in working at them. Indeed, there are many human 
beings that would not have been half so sensible as Jack, 
but still we must believe that such high intelligence, com- 
paratively speaking, must inevitably perish with the body, 
through which as a vehicle it was made to manifest itself. 
All intelligence is an emanation from the Divine Intelligence, 
and, when the life has gone out of the body from which it 
was made to shine forth, then it, instead of perishing with 
the material, returns to the Source of all intelligence, not 
to be re-absorbed, but, as I think, to continue as a separate 
intelligence, drawing its life and light from the great Central 
Head, like as the planets derive theirs from the centre of our 
material universe—the Sun. 
