THE BODY NEEDS THE SOUL FOR LIFE.

When Plato[130] says that the soul is indivisible, he speaks

absolutely. When he insists that she is divisible, it is always

relatively (to the body). He does indeed say that she becomes divisible

in the bodies, but not that she has become such. Let us now examine

how, by her nature, the body needs the soul to live, and what necessity

there is for the soul to be present in the entire body.

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