THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XIII, No. 152.] AUGUST 1840. [New Series, No. 92. 
ON MAN AS CONTRADISTINGUISHED FROM THE 
BRUTE CREATION. 
By Mr. S. Manthorp, U.8'., Colchester. 
’Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier; 
For ever separate, yet for ever near! 
Remembrance and reflection, how allied ! 
What thin partitions sense from thought divide I 
Pope. 
I MUST own myself one of those, who, having perused Mr. Kar- 
keek’s first paper upon the Future Existence of the Brute Crea¬ 
tion,” looked forward with some anxiety for the following portions 
of his talented Essay. Beautiful and flowing and eloquent is that 
production of his mind; now carrying us up to empyrean heights, 
and anon leading us, 
“ With aspect firm and iron front,” 
amongst the wondrous ' inhabitants of the antediluvian world; 
whilst we almost hold our breath at his bold and fearless venture 
into such unfathomable depths I Yet, after consideration, I found a 
feeling of distrust left upon my mind as to the soundness, whatever 
might be the beauty, of the arguments. 
Can it be true, I asked* myself, that immortality has been be¬ 
stowed upon ‘‘ cattle and creeping thing,” as well as man made in 
God’s image and after His likeness 1 Are the eagle of the un¬ 
tired wing, and the prowling tiger, and the leviathan of the deep, 
nay the ephemera of the sunbeam, verily and indeed to live for 
ever ]—to share in the same high and holy visions of beatitude as 
the spirits of just men made perfect; and to partake of those never- 
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