Reasoning Faculties of Beasts

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 12.

Reasoning Faculties of Beasts

In reading the anecdotes about beasts continued in this number, keep in mind the object in view. It is not to show that beasts have immortal souls, but to show that to a certain extent they possess reasoning faculties. The advocates of man's natural immortality, appeal to his reasoning faculties as proof that he is immortal. We say it would prove the same thing, then, for the brute creation ; and to drive them to this absurdity and so break down their false method of reasoning, these articles are given. Our public speakers would do well to select from them such as they can use with the most telling effect in their arguments on the immortality question.