ARISTOTELIAN HYPOTHESIS CONSIDERED.
Should we say that the soul is in the body, as form in matter? In this case, she is "being," and she would be a separable form. If then[289] she be in the body as, in the case of the axe, the schematic figure is in the iron, so as by her own proper virtue, to form the power of doing what iron thus formed accomplishes, we will have all the more reason to attribute the common passions to the body, which is[290] an organized physical tool possessing potential life. For if as (Plato) says[291] it be absurd to suppose that it is the soul that weaves, it is not any more reasonable to attribute the desires and griefs to the soul; rather, by far, to the living organism.