"To begin with, then, a person, I suppose we shall agree, is not sense, though he is manifested through sense."
"What does that mean?" said Wilson.
"It means only, that a person is not his body, although we know him through his body."
"If he isn't his body," said Wilson, "he is probably only a function of it."
"Oh!" I said, "I know nothing about that. I only know that when we talk of a person, we don't mean merely his body."
"No," said Ellis, "but we certainly mean also his body. Heaven save me from a mere naked soul, 'ganz ohne Körper, ganz abstrakt,' as Heine says."
"But, at any rate," I said, "let me ask you, for the moment, to consider the soul apart from the body."
"The soul," cried Wilson, "I thought we weren't to talk about body and soul."
"Well," I said, "I didn't intend to, but I seem to have been driven into it unawares."
"But what do you mean by the soul?"