The Question at Issue a 
powers of comprehension deserves to be called intelligence 
at all. The more a thing resembles ourselves, the more it 
thinks as we do—and thus by implication tells us that we 
are right, the more intelligent we think it ; and the less it 
thinks as we do, the greater fool it must be; if a substance 
does not succeed in making it clear that it understands our 
business, we conclude that it cannot have any business of 
its own, much less understand it, or indeed understand 
anything at all. But letting this pass, so far as we are 
concerned, xpnpdrwv rdévrav perpov dvOpwiros ; we are body en- - 
souled, 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 inconceivable 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 invisible 
lives will influence its desires more powerfully than any- 
thing 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 commission, which each 
