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daring its midnight marches ? The brute and the man 
are alike in these two points* that they possess body and 
mind; and* if the first has no future life* no more has 
the second. Twofold man is simply the best animal; 
the finest example of organic structure. Physiology 
cuts from beneath his feet the great hope of a future 
life* and classes him at once with the beasts that perish. 
But at this point physiology leaves us. It has not 
told the whole story of the life of man* or the life of 
brute. It can instruct us how w r e obtain impressions 
from the senses* and perhaps indicate in what way the 
brain of a philosopher differs from the brain of a fool. 
What can it tell us of innate ideas ? and who* after the 
study of Kant* will deny that we possess them ? Even 
the laws of reason do not explain all the life that is 
within us. Intellectual operations may depend on 
sequence; but the moral feelings are above sequence* 
and* in regard to logic* irresponsible. If every impulse 
of man could be tested by the laws of mental philosophy* 
psychological problems might be settled on the basis of 
mathematics. The moral life of man cannot be put into 
the same crucible as that intended for the analysis of his 
thoughts. No exercise of the senses* no observation 
of fact, no process of reasoning* is needed to give occa¬ 
sion to the experience of a moral faculty* or compel 
attention to the voice of conscience. I find no con¬ 
science in the brute* no moral life in the creatures that 
are happy in companionship with man. There are no 
evidences of the idea of devotion* and with them even 
love can only claim to be regarded as a maternal instinct 
sufficient for the perpetuation of the species. There is no 
