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Greece.
into some other creature that may be ready to receive it”.
Pythogoras says, “All has soul ; all is soul wandering in the organic world and obeying eternal will or law.” According to Maxmuller, claimed a subtle etherial clothing for the soul apart from its grosser clothing when united with body,"
In Greece, the doctrine was held by Empedocles. The students of Plato must have noticed that the doctrine of metempsy. choses forms, as it were, the key note to the principles of causation and compound evolution.
In Plato's Phædo we find : "They (souls after death) wander about so long until through the desire of the corporeal nature that accompanies them, they are again united in a body and they are united, as is probable, to animals having the same habits as those they have given themselves up to during life or even into the same human species again."
"The soul leaving body,” says Plotinus, "becomes that power which it has most developed. Let us Aly then from here
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