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By soul is meant the power to think, to reflect, and to judge of the moral quality of actions and thoughts.
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gutenberg.orgOrange Jacobs: “By soul is meant the power to think, to reflect, and to judge of the moral quality of actions and thoughts.”
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Jacobs defines the concept of the soul as the capacity for moral reasoning and reflection.
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