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title: 'What Is Animal Life?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'William Greenough Thayer Shedd'
date: 1890-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Metaphysics'
- 'Anthropology (Doctrine of Man)'
- 'Natural Theology'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 1'
- 'Job 39'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/shedd-1890-what-is-animal-life
---

# What Is Animal Life?

Discusses late-19th-century materialism vs. idealism and defines animal life as an invisible material energy (protoplasm + organism). Affirms dualism and denies animals possess rational, immortal souls.

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