Note 766 — Chapter XI · ANIMISM. (continued 2)

Alger, ‘Future Life,’ p. 632, and see ‘Bibliography,’ appendix ii.; Wesley, ‘Sermon on Rom. viii. 19-22;’ Adam Clarke, ‘Commentary,’ on same text. This, by the way, is the converse view to Bellarmine’s, who so patiently let the fleas bite him, saying, ‘We shall have heaven to reward us for our sufferings, but these poor creatures have nothing but the enjoyment of the present life.’—Bayle ‘Biog. Dic.’ The argument in Butler’s ‘Analogy,’ part i. ch. i. puts the evidence for souls of brutes on much the same footing as that for souls of men.