But taking, as we ordinarily now do (in the dark concerning these matters,) the soul of a man for an immaterial substance, independent from matter, and indifferent alike to it all; there can, from the nature of things, be no absurdity at all to suppose that the same may at different times be united to different and with them make up for that time one as well as we suppose a part of a sheep's body yesterday should be a part of a man's body to morrow, and in that union make a vital part of Meliboeus himself, as well as it did of his ram.