The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

362 MAN, AND THE NEGRO,
and "a certain combination of functions," which is
termed "Mind or Soul."
Dr. Young- thus employs the
terms Mind and Soul to describe the mental organism,
and thus blends and confuses these two Creations,
which God made separate and distinct. He thus
eliminates the Soul creation, the possession of which
distinguishes Man from the animal, makes him akin
to God and endows him with immortality.
This teaching- of Dr. Young's degrades man to
the level of the brute and attributes his superiority
over the animal to his more highly developed physical
and mental organisms. Hence, the difference between
man and the animal is simply one of degree, not of
kind. This is the teaching of atheism, as shown by
the utterances of Mr. Haeckel as follows:
•*With regard to the human 'soul organ,' the
brain, the application of the fundamental law of
biography has been finally established by the most
careful empiric observations. The same may be said
of its functions, the 'activity of the soul.' For the
development of a function goes hand in hand with
the gradual development of every organ. The morphological
differentiation of the various parts of the
brain corresponds with the physiological separation
or 'division of labor.' Hence, what is commonly