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ON THE FUTURE EXISTENCE OF THE BRUTE 
CREATION. 
PART II. 
By Mr. W. F. Karkeek, V. S., Truro. 
[Continued from page 667.] 
Oh ! who can strive 
To comprehend the vast, the awful truth, 
Of the eternity that hath gone by, 
And not recoil from the dismaying sense 
Of human impotence ? The life of man 
Is summ’d in birthdays and in sepulchres : 
But the Eternal God had no beginning ; 
He hath no end. Time had been with him 
For everlasting , ere the daedal world 
Rose from the gulf in loveliness. — Like him 
It knew no source, like him ’twas uncreate. 
What is it, then ? The past Eternity ! 
We comprehend a future without end; 
We feel it possible that even yon sun 
May roll for ever : but we shrink amazed, 
We stand aghast, when we reflect that time 
Knew no commencement. H. K. White. 
We have attempted, in the former portion of this Essay, to 
establish the proof of the existence of mind in the brute creation. 
The belief of this is essential to the whole of our argument. 
,e Mind,” says Dugald Stewart, “ is that which feels, which 
thinks, and which has the power of beginning motion and there- 
fore the proposition, that sensation, thought, and the power of be- 
ginning motion, are attributes of mind, is not a fact resting upon 
experience, but a truth involved in the only notion of mind which 
we possess. From this it follows that the mind can be subjected 
to no dissolution, but must be ‘ celestial and divine,’ and will 
exist after the bodies of the creatures die. 
We are not singular in this opinion. Dr. Grew, Dr. Thomas 
Brown, Dr. Adam Clark, and Dr. S. Clarke, Crousaz — a French 
writer of some eminence, Sir Matthew Hale, Bonnet, Hartley, 
Cudworth, Barclay, Warburton, Bishop Butler, Euler, Rev. John 
Wesley, Leibnitz, Dr. Wardlaw, besides a host of other writers, — 
men of different schools and professions, and habits of thought, — 
all concur in the firm assurance, that the self-moving vitality of 
animals cannot be material or compounded. 
Here we might venture to leave this part of our subject ; but 
before we do so, we would sav a few words in vindication of man’s 
only real superiority on earth from any presumed depreciation 
some former remarks may be thought to countenance. We stated 
that the difference in the reasoning principle of the biped and the 
