Colonel JFiLA's' Extracts from the Akhlak e Ndseri. .519 



than base matter, will stand still higher touching the impossibility of 

 annihilation. 



The design of discussing this subject is, that every person who shall 

 study this science may hold it certain, that the body is a mean or instru- 

 ment to the soul, as tools and instruments are to mechanics and artisans : 

 and not, as some have imagined, that the body is its subject or abode. 

 For the soul is neither matter nor material, that it should be connected 

 with subject or abode. Of course, the death of the body, with respect to 

 the soul, is no more than the loss of the instrument with respect to the 

 artisan. 



And this position being amply and clearly established, in works of spe- 

 culative phUosophy, by undoubted proofs, what has been said may suffice. 

 But God is omniscient. 



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