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Neither is the soul variable and diverse; for that which is

immortal must be of the fairest and simplest composition. If we

would conceive her truly, and so behold justice and injustice in

their own nature, she must be viewed by the light of reason pure

as at birth, or as she is reflected in philosophy when holding

converse with the divine and immortal and eternal. In her present

condition we see her only like the sea-god Glaucus, bruised and

maimed in the sea which is the world, and covered with shells and

stones which are incrusted upon her from the entertainments of

earth.