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in man and beast, that implies a separate treatment for each 
individual, and becomes a plea for an immortality of life. I 
am not alone in this idea. It is simply astounding how 
Individuality in the lower animals is ignored by man. The 
generality of grooms treat all horses as though they were 
just so many machines turned out of the same mould, and to 
be treated just like machines. There is in every species a 
double kind of Individuality. One kind there is that is 
common to the entire species, and then there is in addition 
to this common characteristic another that distinguishes 
each separate being from its fellows. It is the former that 
makes a species what it is, and there can be no doubt that 
each will exist in the future life, and that both may be 
capable of development. The dog, the horse, the lion and 
the elephant, and in truth all animals that may be fitted to 
survive, will be in the other world what they are in this. 
They will be better animals in that world, just as we hope 
to be better men, but they will not approach us any nearer 
than they do in the earth-life. 
Man does not, as some are foolish enough to claim, lower 
the condition of humanity the least by granting immortality 
to the lower animals. If they be immortal, as the evidence 
adduces most strongly shows, there is not the slightest use 
of denial. We cannot shirk a fact, and even if we could, 
we ought not to do it. Such an argument, which seeks to 
elevate man by depreciating his lower fellow-creatures, is not 
very creditable to humanity. In announcing the belief that 
the lower animals share immortality with man in the higher 
world, as they share mortality in this, does not claim for 
them the slightest equality. Man will be man and beast will 
be beast, and insect will be insect, in the next world as they 
are in this. They are living exponents of Divine Ideas, as 
is evident from the Scriptures and the teachings of science, 
and will be wanted to continue in the world of spirit the 
work which they have begun in the world of matter. True it 
is, as has been asserted, that because a man can transmit his 
