A PLEA FOR THE

IMMORTALITY OF THE BRUTES.

BY

JOSEPH HAMILTON,

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THE STARRY HOSTS," GRADATION OF INTELLIGENCES," ETC.

"Mine is no narrow creed;

And He who gave thee being did not frame
The mystery of life to be the sport
Of merciless man. There is another world
For all that live and move,-a better one,
Where the proud bipeds, who would fain confine
Infinite goodness to the little bounds

Of their own charity, may envy thee."-Southey.

"This is the bud of being; the dim dawn;
The twilight of our day; the vestibule;
Life's theatre as yet is shut."-Young.

0GT 1877

BELFAST: C. AITCHISON;

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.; EDINBURGH: JOHN MENZIES & CO.

ARCHER AND SONS,

PRINTERS,

WELLINGTON PLACE, BELFAST

ΤΟ

SIR ROBERT BOAG, J.P.,

EX-MAYOR OF BELFAST,

THIS TREATISE

IS RESPECTFULLY

DEDICATE D

BY

THE AUTHOR.

CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY.

Supposed "Non-Natural" Immortality of Man-Argument of Leibnitz-Conflicting Theories-Butler and Paley,

CHAPTER II.

Preconceived Opinions-Anticipations of Futurity-Christian
Nations-The Scriptures not a Compendium of Science-
A Liberal Interpretation,

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5-10

CHAPTER III.

THE BRUTES AND THE BIBLE.

Straining of Scripture Utterances-Man as a "Living Soul"
-Dignity of the First Human Pair-The "Spirit of the
Beast that Goeth Downward "-The "Beasts that Perish"
-The Whole Creation Groaning and Travailing in Pain-
Various Interpretations-Wesley's Opinion-Sum of Bible
Testimony, ...

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