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<p>let the People who say, they cannot understand, what the<lb/> | |||
Soul is without the body, consider this and see whether<lb/> | |||
they can tell what it is in the Body; as for myself, when<lb/> | |||
I contemplate the Nature of the Soul, I am much more<lb/> | |||
puzzled to find out what it is when it is <add>in</add> the Body and<lb/> | |||
out of its own home, as it were, than when it is gone out,<lb/> | |||
and arrived at its proper residence; for if we cannot ——<lb/> | |||
understand any thing at all of what we never saw; ——<lb/> | |||
certainly we cannot comprehend in our thoughts what<lb/> | |||
God and the divine Soul itself, free from all body, is.<lb/> | |||
Dicaearchus indeed, and Aristoxenus, because they<lb/> | |||
found it difficult to comprehend what the Soul was,<lb/> | |||
said there was no such thing as a Soul. this indeed<lb/> | |||
is a maxim, to see the Soul by the Soul itself; and<lb/> | |||
without doubt the precept of Apollo, in which every<lb/> | |||
one is admonished to know himself, has that ———<lb/> | |||
Signification: for <add>I</add> take it, he does not command you, to<lb/> | |||
know your limbs or stature or figure, neither are we<lb/> | |||
ourselves bodies; for when I speak to you, I do not<lb/> | |||
speak to your body. when therefore he says, Know<lb/> | |||
yourself, he says know your own Soul: for the body<lb/> | |||
is a kind of vessel, or receptacle for the Soul: and —<lb/> | |||
whatsoever your Soul does, you do, to know it therefore,<lb/> | |||
unless it was divine, is not so famous a precept, as to be<lb/> | |||
given by a God; that is, to be able to know itself. but<lb/> | |||
if the Soul itself, does not know itself; tell me prithee,<lb/> | |||
whether it knows it exists? whether it knows it moves?</p> | |||
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let the People who say, they cannot understand, what the
Soul is without the body, consider this and see whether
they can tell what it is in the Body; as for myself, when
I contemplate the Nature of the Soul, I am much more
puzzled to find out what it is when it is in the Body and
out of its own home, as it were, than when it is gone out,
and arrived at its proper residence; for if we cannot ——
understand any thing at all of what we never saw; ——
certainly we cannot comprehend in our thoughts what
God and the divine Soul itself, free from all body, is.
Dicaearchus indeed, and Aristoxenus, because they
found it difficult to comprehend what the Soul was,
said there was no such thing as a Soul. this indeed
is a maxim, to see the Soul by the Soul itself; and
without doubt the precept of Apollo, in which every
one is admonished to know himself, has that ———
Signification: for I take it, he does not command you, to
know your limbs or stature or figure, neither are we
ourselves bodies; for when I speak to you, I do not
speak to your body. when therefore he says, Know
yourself, he says know your own Soul: for the body
is a kind of vessel, or receptacle for the Soul: and —
whatsoever your Soul does, you do, to know it therefore,
unless it was divine, is not so famous a precept, as to be
given by a God; that is, to be able to know itself. but
if the Soul itself, does not know itself; tell me prithee,
whether it knows it exists? whether it knows it moves?
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Jeremy Bentham |
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