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 world and from the sphere of man, which sufficiently accounts for their instincts, howsoever near they may approach human reasoning.

The absence of the Inmost, wherein the Creator is present by influx directly from Himself and bestows love and wisdom like that in His own Human, and the lack of the entire Internal Mind, demonstrate animals to be without the human essentials, and explain and define their limitations. Not having the human rational, they can not lift themselves above the order of instinctive life.

The conclusion that animals have a counterpart formed from the substances of the spiritual world and reaching upward in the spiritual world as the body does in nature; or in other words, that they have souls which are correlatives or prototypes of their bodies, is forced upon us by the same reasons that demonstrate the existence of a soul in man. Their instinct, though less than human rationality, is equally unexplainable by the inherent capacities of matter; so also is the design evidenced in the formation of their bodies. If animals are conceded to have an interior structure of spiritual