Fa. What is it? for they say he was a very good Decypherer of every Thing.
Eu. The Soul is the Act of an Organical, Physical Body, having Life in Potentia.
Fa. Why does he rather call it an Act than a Journey or Way?
Eu. Here's no Regard either to Coachmen or Horsemen, but a bare Definition of the Soul. And he calls the Form Act, the Nature of which is to act, when it is the Property of Matter to suffer. For all natural Motion of the Body proceeds from the Soul. And the Motion of the Body is various.
Fa. I take that in; but why does he add of an Organical?
Eu. Because the Soul does nothing but by the Help of Organs, that is, by the Instruments of the Body.
Fa. Why does he say Physical?
Eu. Because Dædalus made such a Body to no Purpose; and therefore he adds, having Life in Potentia. Form does not act upon every Thing; but upon a Body that is capable.
Fa. What if an Angel should pass into the Body of a Man?
Eu. He would act indeed, but not by the natural Organs, nor would he give Life to the Body if the Soul was absent from it.