8o LUCK, OR CUNNING? 



understand it, or indeed understand anything at all. 

 But letting this pass, so far as we are concerned, 

 xj ;^o))^aTwv 'na.trw /i'eroov at^uvos ; We are body ensouled, 

 and soul embodied, ourselves, nor is it possible for us 

 to think seriously of anything so unlike ourselves as 

 to consist either of soul without body, or body without 

 souL Unmattered condition, therefore, is as incon- 

 ceivable by us as unconditioned matter; and we must 

 hold that all body with which we can be conceivably 

 concerned is more or less ensouled, and all soul, in like 

 manner, more or less embodied. Strike either body 

 or soul — that is to say, effect either a physical or a 

 mental change, and the harmonics of the other sound. 

 So long as body is minded in a certain way — so long, 

 that is to say, as it feels, knows, remembers, concludes, 

 and forecasts one set of things^it will be in one form ; 

 if it assumes a new one, otherwise than by external 

 violence, no matter how slight the change may be, it 

 is only through having changed its mind, through 

 having forgotten and died to some trains of thought, 

 and having been correspondingly born anew by the 

 adoption of new ones. What it will adopt depends upon 

 which of the various courses open to it it considers 

 most to its advantage. 



What it will think to its advantage depends mainly 

 on the past habits of its race. Its past and now in- 

 visible lives will influence its desires more powerfully 

 than anything it may itself be able to add to the sum 

 of its likes and dislikes ; nevertheless, over and above 

 preconceived opinion and the habits to which all are 

 slaves, there is a small salary, or^ as it were, agency 



