Note 152 — THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XVIII., No. 106.—JANUARY, 1874.[138]
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To say that the human soul can exist apart from the body, is no objection. Our soul is not merely a formal act; it is a subsistent being—that is, an act having its own intrinsic term, and therefore possessing an independent existence; which cannot be said of other forms. And on this account the soul is the only form which without impropriety might be called a formal cause as well as a formal principle.