The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAN, AND THE NEGRO. 363
termed the *sour or 'mind* of man [consciousness
included] is merely the sum-total of the activities of
a larg-e number of nerve-cells, the g-ang^lia-cells, of
which the brain is
composed. Where the normal
arrangement arid function of these latter does not
exist, it is impossible to conceive of a 'healthy soul.'
This idea, which is one of the most important principles
of our modern exact physiolog-y, is certainly not
compatible with the widespread belief in the 'personal
immortality' of man/" \_Historv of Creation^ Vol. II,
p. 494.]
What a pitiable spectacle Dr. Young and the clergy
as a whole and their deluded followers present
in thus
assailing God's Plan of
Creation and tearing from it one
of its three Creations, and accepting the teaching of
atheism that the mind and soul are identical !
It is easy
to prove that the animal has a mind, and that in this
respect the only difference between man and the animal
is one of degree, and if the mind and soul are identical
why should not the "mind or soul" of the animal be as
immortal as the "mind or soul" of the man? This
leaves us no alternative than to base our claims to imimmortality,
solely on the superiority of our mind over
that of the animal. Based upon a claim quite as flimsy
as this, the immortality of man is made to appear abso-