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How are we to explain the omnipresence of the soul? Does it
depend upon the definite magnitude of the material universe
coupled with some native tendency in soul to distribute itself
over material mass, or is it a characteristic of soul apart from
body?  In the latter case, soul will not appear just where body
may bring it; body will meet soul awaiting it everywhere;
wheresoever body finds place, there soul lay before ever body
was; the entire material mass of the universe has been set into
an existent soul.  But if soul spread thus wide before material
extension existed, then as covering all space it would seem to
be of itself a thing of magnitude, and in what mode could it
exist in the All before the All was in being, before there was
any All? And who can accept a soul described as partless and
massless and yet, for all that absence of extension, extending
over a universe? We may perhaps be told that, though extended
over the corporeal, it does n