Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — A Future Life for Animals. [ARTICLE]

A Future Life for Animals.

Our Dumb Animale. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, thought there was a future life for animals. So did those eminent Christian Bishops, Jeremy Taylor and Bishop Butler. Coleridge advocated it in England, Lamarthine and Agassiz in America. Agassiz, the greatest scientist we ever had on this continent, and a man of profound religious convictions, was a firm believer of some future life for the lower animals. A professor of Harvard University has compiled a list of 185 European authors who have written on the subject. Among the leading clergy of Boston who have publicly expressed their belief in a future life for animals are Joseph Cook, Trinitarian, and James Freeman Clark, Unitarian. Some ten years ago a man left by will to Mr. Bergh’s New York Society about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Relatives contested the will on the ground that he was insane because he believed in a future life for animals. The Judge, in sustaining said he found that more than half the human race believed the same thing.