Socrates was philosopher enough, on the eve of is death, to

see his body as a sell and to say to himself: 'That is not I.'

Most og us, however, though we might admit in our

intelligences that our bodies were not we,would continue to

think of them as ourselves in our imaginations. Wharever our

essence, it is through the body that we have visited the earth,

and we cannot dissociate from it any of the experiences that

have made life so well worth living that we wish to go on

with it.