the 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XII, No. 144.] DECEMBER 1839. [New Series, No. 84. 
ON THE .FUTURE EXISTENCE OF THE BRUTE 
CREATION. 
PART III. 
By Mr . W. F. Karkeek, V.S., Truro. 
[Concluded from page 758.] 
What does philosophy impart to man 
But undiscover’d wonders ? Let her soar 
Even to her proudest heights, to where she caught 
The soul of Newton and of Socrates, 
She but extends the scope of wild amaze 
And admiration. All her lessons end 
In wider views of God’s unfathom’d depths. 
H. K. White. 
CHAINED as we are to the grovelling frailties of the flesh, it 
is impossible for mere mortal man, unpurged from earthly dross, to 
survey the dim uncertain gulph which we have dared venturously 
to explore. If our readers, who have followed us thus far, would 
scan this fearful chasm, and try to catch but a transient glimpse 
of its unfathomable depths, they must take divine philosophy for 
their guide. 
The immortality of the soul of man rests not on the opinions or 
reasoning of philosophers, but on the sure word of God; yet, if 
animals are inferior in their spiritual substances when compared 
with men, which they evidently are, — and we are capable of prov- 
ing that they are imperishable, — how much more certain shall we 
be that our intellectual exertions will not terminate with the disso- 
lution of the corporeal frame ! No doubt the testimony of natural 
reason, on whatever exercised, must of necessity stop short of those 
truths which it is the object of revelation to make known : but 
while it places the existence and principal attributes of a Deity on 
such grounds as to render doubt absurd and atheism ridiculous, it 
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