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1879.] The Spiritual in Animals. 
looming in the future — they might, perhaps, feel it prefer- 
able to sleep on for ever beneath the shade of their good 
green woods. 
Will the future existence, either of man or brute, be more 
than merely linear, as at present ? Who has not felt, at 
times, a craving for multipresence — a wish to see and enjoy 
at once what in this life we can only behold successively ? 
As with sight, so also with all the other faculties of our 
being. Shall we be always restricted to the exercise of one 
only function at a time ? Must the intellectual, the esthetic, 
the' sensuous, and the moral phases of our being always 
merely relieve each other on duty ? Of all the many 
limitations of our earth-life none is more irksome than this. 
Many a time when on a journey we have repined that we 
could not stay at some beautiful spot, and at the same time 
go on to other scenes not less lovely. The burden of a 
strange old song rings continually in our ears 
“ For say, O why must the whitethorn fade 
Before the rose can bloom.” 
A bye-question here presents itself. The belief in ghosts 
— very widely spread among the human species — is fre- 
quently brought forward as a corroboration of the existence 
of unseen, probably immaterial, beings, and hence of the 
being of God, with whom man, in virtue of his spiritual 
nature, has an affinity. But in numerous accounts of the 
alleged appearances of ghosts, and indeed of phenomena 
not readily to be explained, by known physical laws, we find 
it stated that dogs and other animals were seized with the 
utmost terror.* Hence it is but fair to argue that if these 
narratives contain an element of truth, then dogs, as well as 
men, have an affinity with the spiritual world, and are able 
to recognise the supernatural. If these stories are mere 
inventions, exaggerations, or distortions, or if the phenomena 
though faithfully reported admit of “ natural ” explanation, 
then they prove nothing as regards man. 
Ennemoser, Jtfistory of Magic (Howitt’s version), pp. 355, 362, and 395. 
