A brief for animal immortality / by Walter Clifford Meller.

  • Meller, Walter Clifford
Date:
1911
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Credit: A brief for animal immortality / by Walter Clifford Meller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    does in man, from the identity of the animal soul. We see, therefore, that the identity of the animal is untouched by the renovation or decay of the body, and that in both man and animal the anima is exterior and not dependent on the changes (even death) of the body. And this argument being used by the philosopher as a proof of man’s non- dependence of his anima on the body is just as valid, the proof being the same, and the circumstances demonstrated by that proof as valid, in the case of the animal, for its anima not being affected by the changes of the organism. Before closing this chapter on the anima or vital principle of the lower creation, it may be of use to lay before the reader two other proofs of the fallacies of the philoso- phers of the Organic school, who deny to the anima of the animal any other existence than that which is passed in and through the organism, and so ceases with the organ- ism. It is this—the organism is matter ; the anima is life. Now, if this anima perishes
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