15. The body, as well as the soul, goes to the making of a man.
And thus may we be able, without any difficulty,
to conceive the same person at the resurrection, though in a body not exactly in make or parts the same which he
had here,--the same consciousness going along with the soul that inhabits it. But yet the soul alone, in the change
of bodies, would scarce to any one but to him that makes the soul the man, be enough to make the same man. For
should the soul of a prince, carrying with it the consciousness of the prince's past life, enter and inform the body
of a cobbler, as soon as deserted by his own soul, every one sees he would be the same person with the prince,
accountable only for the prince's actions: but who would say it was the same man? The body too goes to the
making the man, and would, I guess, to everybody determine the man in this case, wherein the soul, with all its
princely thoughts about it, would not make another man: but he would be the same cobbler to every one besides
himself. I know that, in the ordinary way of speaking, the same person, and the same man, stand for one and the
same thing. And indeed every one will always have a liberty to speak as he pleases, and to apply what articulate
sounds to what ideas he thinks fit, and change them as often as he pleases. But yet, when we will inquire what
makes the same spirit, man, or person, we must fix the ideas of spirit, man, or person in our minds; and having
resolved with ourselves what we mean by them, it will not be hard to determine, in either of them, or the like,
when it is the same, and when not.
