NOR IS THE BODY A VASE, FOR PROXIMATE TRANSMISSION OF THE SOUL.

Nor is the soul in the body as in a vase. In this case, the body would

be inanimate, and would contain the soul as in a vase or locality. If

the soul be considered as concentrated in herself and as communicating

to the body something of herself by "close transmission" (as the Stoics

would say), that which the soul will transmit to this vase would for

her become something lost.

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