"We may," he said.
"And the invisible always continuing the same, but the visible never the same?"
"This, too," he said, "we may assume."
"Come, then," he asked, "is there anything else belonging to us than, on the one hand, body, and, on the other, soul?"
"Nothing else," he replied.
"To which species, then, shall we say the body is more like, and more nearly allied?"
"It is clear to everyone," he said, "that it is to the visible."
"But what of the soul? Is it visible or invisible?"
"It is not visible to men, Socrates," he replied.
"But we speak of things which are visible, or not so, to the nature of men; or to some other nature, think you?"