Not even are quadrupeds and men living souls, but they are vivified by the same breath and spirit. _Neshemet chayim_, or the _breath of lives_, and not the _breath_ of _life_ as the text of the common version has it, is said to be in the inferior creatures as well as in man. _Chayim_ in the Hebrew is in the plural number, and therefore the words _neshemet chayim_ should be rendered as above. Thus, God said, “I bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy _all flesh_ wherein is _ruach chayim_ spirit of lives.” And in another place, “they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of _all flesh_, in which is _ruach chayim_ spirit of lives.” And _all flesh_ died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing, and every man; all in whose nostrils was _neshemet ruach chayim_, BREATH OF SPIRIT OF LIVES. Now, as has been previously affirmed, it was the _neshemet chayim_ with which God, according to the testimony of Moses, inflated the nostrils of Adam. If, therefore, this were a particle of the divine essence, as it is declared, which became the immortal soul in man, then all other animals have likewise immortal souls, for they all received breath of spirit of lives in common with him. Begotten of the same Invisible Power, and formed from the substance of a common earth mother, man and beasts were animated by the same spirit, and constituted to be _living breathing frames_, though of different species, and in God they lived, and moved, and had their continued being.