MANY METAPHYSICAL OBJECTIONS TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOUL AS LOCALIZED.

Considering location in the strict sense of the word, it is

incorporeal, and consequently cannot be a body. It would no longer need

the soul. Besides (if the soul be in the body as if in a locality) the

body will approach the soul by its surface, and not by itself. Many

other objections can be raised to the theory that localizes the soul in

the body. Under this hypothesis, indeed, place would have to be carried

around along with the thing in which it will locate. But that which

would carry place around with it (would be a monstrosity). Moreover,

if the body be defined as being an interval, it will be still less true

to say that the soul is in the body as a locality; for an interval

should be empty; but the body is not empty, being within emptiness.

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