1.—“_Her intellect alert_ ...”
“_Intellectus prelucit voluntati._”—“Intellect carries the light before
the will.”—Cardinal Manning (_Review of Reviews_, Vol. V., p. 135).
5, 6.—“... _body still is supple unto mind,
By dint of soul is fleshly form inclined_.”
Reflecting Plato’s teaching, our second worthy Elizabethan poet has
said:—
“Every spirit as it is most pure,
And hath in it the more of heavenly light,
So it the fairer body doth procure
To habit in.
For of the Soul the Body form doth take:
For Soul is form, and doth the Body make.”
And in our own day, Charles Kingsley says, in serious sportiveness: “The
one true doctrine of this wonderful fairy tale is, that your soul makes
your body, just as a snail makes its shell.” And again: “You must know
and believe that people’s souls make their bodies just as a snail makes
its shell.... I am not joking, my little man; I am in serious, solemn
earnest.”—(“The Water Babies,” Chaps. III. and IV.)