METAPH YSICAL VIEW OF LIFE.
What is life? Dr. Le-Sndre of tho Paris Museum of Natural History liasproposed a now scientific definition of the term. It has been proved that the parts of a body can live for hours separately after the body as a whole is dead. Henc.o it follows, he says, that life must bo something which coordinates functions thab may continue after it has itself vanished.
In other words we have here a scientific recognition of the soul or spirit, as something apart from and in addition to the mere physical elements of the body, which may live after the soul has departed. But the lower animals possess life, though most people do not grant them a soul. According to'this doctrine the lower animals, as well as man, would have to have a soul or spirit—an impalpable something which holds the parts ol the physical being together and makes them an entity.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 735, 9 January 1915, Page 3
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155METAPHYSICAL VIEW OF LIFE. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 735, 9 January 1915, Page 3
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