Therefore, as a person cannot be in duplicates, it is plain, that the soul cannot be the product of mechanism. And every person knows that his self is only his self, and the same self at all times, without division, augmentation, or change of any kind, he knows it has an identity, and there* fore is not the effect of matter.

— Lewis Gompertz Fragments in Defence of Animals, and Essays on Morals, Soul, and Future State (1852)

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