Have The Ant And The Bee Souls?

HAVE THE ANT AND THE BEE SOULS?

By Dr. Carleton Simon

OUR so called knowledge of soul is what we know through the agency of the mind, and the mind is dependent upon cell conditions for its activity. Our inference of soul and in fact its conception, is the product of our imagination, which in turn is dependent upon thought. This thought is wholly dependent upon the senses for its development and manifestation, and these are strictly physical in every characteristic of their mechanism.

IF THE HUMAN MIND GIVES EVIDENCE OF SOUL QUALITIES, THEN THE ANT AND THE BEE HAVE EQUAL CLAIM.

Man has no right to infer that because he has solely the faculty of self expression he is superior in the line of divine right. Neither has he the right to infer that other organized substances can be denied similar soul qualities.

THE LOSS OF THE VITAL ELECTRIC SPARK, WITH THE CONSEQUENT DISINTEGRATION OF STRUCTURE THAT OCCURS, IS CLAIMED BY MANY AS AN EVIDENCE OF SOUL. IF THIS BE SO, THEY MUST ALSO GIVE TO ALL ORGANIZED STRUCTURES SIMILAR SOUL QUALITIES, FOR THEY ALL SHOW THE SAME PHENOMENA OF LIFE. ALL ORGANIZED SUBSTANCES DISINTEGRATE THE MOMENT THEIR VITAL SPARK IS GONE.