Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — Thinking Animals. [ARTICLE]

Thinking Animals.

Some of the lower animals, are pet only gifted with mepoxy, but with thinking and reasoning powers. For irfstasee,; if «« «*t errocmnters' arfly, it will retm-n -fo#«assistAnce to take the> fly Jo its hopfe' That The ant coudhhles that it if beyond its individual powers. Dogs talk to us better . than we talk to them; and there ur nothing in thean imal creation that surpasses the affection ofS dog or a horse for its Their almost to reason. Where is thelme between rtsason and instiriet V Man is of a dual character physical and mental; »-* tho . mental; is . developed in -mankind ip the highest degree; and it livesaher the physical body is dead. After the body was created God breathed into man the breath of life, and he became .a living soul. Is the soul the mind?— George Heuston. " 1 - r A writer in Harper’s commences a poem with the line, “Some day I shall be dead.” It is indeed a beautiful thought—ZoiueZZ Citizen. Mb. W. A. Forbes, Greenfield, Mass., was cured by St. Jacobs Qil of rheumatism. —Cincinnati Christian Standard.