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The Hindu philosopher, Ramanuja, seems to take the same view when he says :
The souls and matter are asatya or unreal, which again means that they are subject to modification, which is necessarily an element of impurity. In the case of souls, this modification takes the form of expansion or contraction of Intelligence."--Sri Ramanajacharya, by T. R. Chariar, p. 53.
Concerning the locus of the soul, the following passage which occurs in Maher's Psychology is full of interest for us :
“There has been much discussion among philosophers, Ancient and Modern, regarding the precise part of the body to be assigned as the seat of the soul. Some have located it in the heart, others in the head, others in various portions of the brain. . . The hopelessly conflicting state of opinion on the question would seem to be due to the erroneous but widely prevalent view, that the simplicity of essence or substance possessed by the soul is a spatial simplicity akin to that of a mathematical point. As a consequence, fruitless etfcrts have continually been made to discover some general nerve centre, some focus from which lines of communication radiato to all districts of the body. The indivisibility, however, of the soul, just as that of intelligence and volition, does not consist in the minuteness of a point. The soul is an immaterial energy which, thongh not constituted of separate principles or parts alongside of parts, is yet capable of exercising its virtue throughout an extended subject. Such a reality does not, like a material entity, occupy different parts of space by different parts of its own mass. In scholastic phraseology it was described as present throughout the body, which it enlivens, not circumscriptive, but definitive; not per contactum quantitatis but per contactum virtutis. Its presence is not that of an extended object the different parts of which fill and are circumscribed by corresponding areas of space, but of an immaterial energy exerting its proper activities ubiquitously thronghout the living body.
“The soul is present though in a non-quantitative manner, throughout Che whole body: moreover, it is so present everywhere in the entirety of its essence, although it may not be capable of ubiquitously therein exercising all its faculties. ... ... ... Those activities ...
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