SOUL AS BOTH ESSENTIALLY DIVISIBLE AND INDIVISIBLE.
2. Such then the nature of the soul had to be. She could not be either purely indivisible, nor purely divisible, but she necessarily had to be both indivisible and divisible, as has just been set forth. This is further proved by the following considerations. If the soul, like the body, have several parts differing from each other, the sensation of one part would not involve a similar sensation in another part. Each part of the soul, for instance, that which inheres in the finger, would feel its individual affections, remaining foreign to all the rest, while remaining within itself. In short, in each one of us would inhere several managing souls (as said the Stoics).[358] Likewise, in this universe, there would be not one single soul (the universal Soul), but an infinite number of souls, separated from each other.