65. It is a cause for wonder that though
they do not believe in the resurrection, yet in their kindly care they
make provision that the human race should not perish, The immortality of
the soul may be believed by those who deny the resurrection of the
body, and was taught by many philosophers amongst the heathen.
The resurrection of the body is a matter of divine revelation, and the
very highest and best amongst the heathen seem not to have admitted it
even as a speculation. and so say that souls pass and migrate
into other bodies that the world may not pass away. But let them
say which is the most difficult, for souls to migrate, or to return;
come back to that which is their own, or seek for fresh dwelling
places.