PRIMITIVE RELATION BETWEEN SOUL AND BODY.
But what was the condition of the soul before her separation from the body by philosophy? Was she mingled with the body? If she were mingled with it, she must either have been formed[282] by mixing;[271] or she was spread all over the body; or she was[283] a form interwoven with the body; or she was a form governing the body[284] as a pilot governs the ship;[285] or[286] was partly mingled with, and partly separated from, the body. (In the latter case) I would call the independent part that which uses the body as a tool, while the mingled part is that which lowers itself to the classification or rank of instrument. Now philosophy raises the latter to the rank of the former; and the detached part turns her away, as far as our needs allow, from the body she uses, so that she may not always have to use the body.