Ita per singulos, qui eum capere possunt, hoc efficitur, vel hoc intelligitur ipse Spiritus, quo indiget ille, qui eum participare meruerit. Schnitzer renders, “And so, in every one who is susceptible of them, the Spirit is exactly that which the receiver chiefly needs.” Footnote 255: 1 Tim. iv. 1-3. Footnote 256: 2 Cor. xii. 4. Footnote 257: 1 Cor. x. 23. Footnote 258: 1 John ii. 1, 2. CHAPTER VIII. ON THE SOUL (ANIMA). 1. The order of our arrangement now requires us, after the discussion of the preceding subjects, to institute a general inquiry regarding the soul;[259] and, beginning with points of inferior importance, to ascend to those that are of greater. Now, that there are souls[260] in all living things, even in those which live in the waters, is, I suppose, doubted by no one. For the general opinion of all men maintains this; and confirmation from the authority of holy Scripture is added, when it is said that “God made great whales, and every living creature[261] that moveth which the waters brought forth after their kind.”[262] It is confirmed also from the common intelligence of reason, by those who lay down in certain words a definition of soul. For soul is defined as follows: a substance φανταστικὴ and ὁρμητικὴ, which may be rendered into Latin, although not so appropriately, _sensibilis et mobilis_.[263] This certainly may be said appropriately of all living beings, even of those which abide in the waters; and of winged creatures too, this same definition of _anima_ may be shown to hold good. Scripture also has added its authority to a second opinion, when it says, “Ye shall not eat the blood, because the life[264] of all flesh is its blood; and ye shall not eat the life with the flesh;”[265] in which it intimates most clearly that the blood of every animal is its life. And if any one now were to ask how it can be said with respect to bees, wasps, and ants, and those other things which are in the waters, oysters and cockles, and all others which are without blood, and are most clearly shown to be living things, that the “life of all flesh is the blood,” we must answer, that in living things of that sort the force which is exerted in other animals by the power of red blood is exerted in them by that liquid which is within them, although it be of a different colour; for colour is a thing of no importance, provided the substance be endowed with life.[266] That beasts of burden or cattle of smaller size are endowed with souls,[267] there is, by general assent, no doubt whatever. The opinion of holy Scripture, however, is manifest, when God says, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, four-footed beasts, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind.”[268] And now with respect to man, although no one entertains any doubt, or needs to inquire, yet holy Scripture declares that “God