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To those of your readers who do not understand Welsh it might be of 

 interest to know that this ' ancient British name ' is Welsh, and means 

 ' the great diver ' ; the usual Welsh word used for ' diver ' is 

 ' trochwr,' the terminals of the masculine noun in Welsh may be 

 'ydd' or ' wr.' I might further state the verb 'dive' is in Welsh 

 ' trochi ' ; the noun is formed by adding ' ydd ' or ' wr ' to the verb 

 ' trochi,' omitting the final ' i.' 



Zoological Idealism — In a recent number of ' The Animal World,' 

 Mr. J. M. A. Woods has discussed the question, " Have Animals a 

 future Life?" Of course, by "animals" the author clearly implies 

 animals other than man. He writes : — " A subject like this always 

 finds opposers, because it contradicts the natural pride of man, which 

 makes him anxious to think himself so completely first that none else 

 can share his immortality " ; and " We are apt to think of the word 

 ' immortality ' as comprising more than its simple meaning — death- 

 lessness." A considerable number of theological and other writers are 

 quoted, and we will confine ourselves to extracts from the last. 



Max Miiller, in his first series of ' Lectures on Language,' writes : — 

 " It does not follow that the souls of men are not immortal because the 

 souls of brutes are not immortal, nor has the major premiss ever been 

 proved by any philosopher, namely, that the souls of brutes must 

 necessarily be destroyed and annihilated by death. Leibnitz, who has 

 defended the immortality of the human soul with stronger arguments 

 than even Descartes, writes : — ' I found at last how the souls of brutes 

 and their sensations do not at all interfere with the immortality of 

 human souls ; on the contrary, nothing serves better to establish our 

 natural immortality than to believe that all souls are imperishable.' " 



Dr. John Brown, in ' Horae Subsecivse,' asks: — "Are not these 

 dumb friends of ours persons rather than things ? Is not their soul 

 ampler, as Plato would say, than their body, and contains, rather than 

 is contained ? Is not what lives and wills in them, and is affectionate, 

 as spiritual, as immaterial, as truly removed from mere flesh, blood, 

 and bones, as that soul which is proper self of their master ? And 

 when we look each other in the face, as I look in Dick's, who is lying 

 in his ' corney ' by the fireside, and he in mine, is it not as much the 

 dog within looking out from his eyes — the windows of his soul — as it is 

 the man from mine ?" 



" Knowest thou not," says Milton, referring to the lower animals, 

 " their knowledge and their ways ? They also know and reason not 

 contemptibly." And Aristotle ; " There are between man and animals 



