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Source: Opera Omnia volume 6, 1 Ludovic Dutens (ed) p 315 Date: January 1697 (?) Translated from the Latin View this translation in PDF format (89k) Back to home page Search texts by keyword(s): (For search strings, just type the words; don't use quotation marks) |
ALL THINGS ARE FULL OF SOULS[D VI 1, p315] Henry More establishes the pre-existence of souls, that is, that created souls have existed with the world,1 an opinion maintained long ago by Plato, Origen, and others. My opinion is that all things are, so to speak, full of souls, or things of an analogous nature, and that not even the souls of beasts perish.2 NOTES: 1. See Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, ed. Alexander Jacob (Dodrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987), 145-155 (book II, chapters XII and XIII). 2. This last sentence is also found verbatim in Leibniz's letter to Johann Bernoulli of 28 December 1696/7 January 1697; see A III 7, 245. © Lloyd Strickland 2018 |