Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY H. E. BUTLER
(Printed from the Sept. 1899 issue of "The Esote1ic.")
F there were no other evidence that the tinte
has arrived fora higher order of life, it
would be suflicient to note the fact that
every quality of mind that has been ac-
;-? tive in the animal and human organism, is
now being brought to ultimations in the various systems
of culture, physical and mental, and the various schools
studying and working on the effect of the mind on the
body; and yet, at best, none of these can do more than
obtain a correct knowledge of the effect of certain mental
states.
Altho it is a truth not yet generally accepted, a little
consideration of the subject must convince us of the fact
that, without the mind, the physical organism is dead;
and we observe at least two spheres of mind active in
control of animal nature,-one finding expression in reptile,
bird, and beast, the other in human life. While
many of us are not prepared to believe that animals
think in the sense that men think, yet we must admit
that they manifest a certain kind of thought. Every
creature works for its own support, and there is undoubted
intelligence shown by the bird in the building of
its nest and caring for its young, by the bee in gathering
honey and providing for the winter, and by the ant
in the exhibition of its colonizing instincts; we are told