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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 aud 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.” + 
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 Verteb rata, 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 respondenee to certain sensa- 
* 2 Pet. i. 4. f “Nat. Hist, of Man.” 
