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This is in agreement with what we have seenScience to teach, namely, that- the " Ego," the realperson, the thinking part of man, is not indepcadeut of his organism.Adam was now able to see and hear and speak, tothink and walk and work. He was now a sentientbeing, a being endowed with sense-perception; andthus ,the best definition of a living soul that onecould give is that. it is a . sentient being. Itmay be objected that such a decnition would includethe lower animals, and that the Scriptures do notteach that the lower animals are souls. But theWord of God does .speak zf the lower animals inthis w&y, although it is somewhat obscured in ourBnglish version. When the Hebrew words ncpheslzcaiyah (living soul) are us& wit11 reference to thelower animals, they are never (with one exception,namely, Nurqbers . XXXI. 28) translated " soul "but always " life " or " living creature "- or somesnch expression ; whereas' the same word whenthey occur in relation to human beings, are invariablytranslpted " soul " or " living soul?' , Twoillustrations of- this may be seen in the first chapterof Genesis, verses 20 and 30. In the 20th verse weread : " Gbd said, I,et the waters bring forth abun-- dantly the moving creature that hath life." Thoseof you who have ~eference Bibles will see in themargin against the word " creature " the words :" Hebrew, soul." Then in the 30th verse of thesame chapter we read : '.' To every beast of theearth and to every fowl of the air and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein thereis life." Notice here also that in the margin againstthe word " life "' appear the words : " Hebrew, aliving soal."Clearly, then, the Bible agrees withB