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LIFE, IN ITS HIGHER FORMS. 



of the Divine nature.* " Behold what manner of love the 

 Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called 

 the sons of God ! " 



To some it may appear strange that we should consider 

 the possession of a soul, as well as a body, common to the 

 Brutes with Man, and may possibly startle even some who 

 do not fall into the general mistake of confounding the soul 

 with the spirit. Yet it is evident that the inferior creatures 

 do manifest mental attributes. " The phenomena/' ob- 

 serves Dr Prichard, " of feeling, of desire and aversion, of 

 love and hatred, of fear and revenge, and the perception 

 of external relations, manifest in the life of brutes, imply, 

 not only through the analogy which they display to the 

 human faculties, but likewise from all that we can learn 

 or conjecture of their particular nature, the superadded 

 principle, distinct from the mere mechanism of material 

 bodies. That such a principle must exist in all beings 

 capable of sensation, or of anything analogous to human 

 passions and feelings, will hardly be denied by those who 

 perceive the force of arguments which metaphysically de- 

 monstrate the immaterial nature of the mind." t 



One of our most eminent physiologists has expressed the 

 same opinion. "When," observes Dr Carpenter, "we con- 

 trast the actions of Man and of the higher Yertebrata, with 

 those of the lower, we cannot but perceive that we gradu- 

 ally lose the indications of Intelligence and Will, as the 

 sources of the movements of the animal ; whilst we see a 

 corresponding predominance of those which are commonly 

 denominated Instinctive, and which are performed (as it 

 would appear) in immediate respondence to certain sensa- 



* 2 Pet. . 4. f "Nat. Hist, of Man.* 



