Either it is potential, as that of Hermes in the wax, provided the wax be adapted to receive the proper mouldings, or as that of the statue implicit in the bronze; or again it is determinate, which is the case with the completed figure of Hermes or the finished statue. The soul is the realization “ of a natural body,” since bodies may be divided into (a) artificial bodies made by the hands of craftsmen, as a tower or a ship, and (6) natural bodies which are the work of nature, such as plants and the bodies of animals. And when he said “ organic ” he meant constructed as means to an end, as sight is adapted for seeing and the ear for hearing. Of a body ‘‘ potentially possessed of life,” that is, in itself. There are two senses of “ potential,’ one answering to a formed state and the other to its exercise in act. In the latter sense of the term he who is awake is said to have soul, in the former he who is asleep. It was then in order to include the sleeper that Aristotle added the word “ potential.” He held many other opinions on a variety of subjects which it would be tedious to enumerate. For altogether his industry and invention were remarkable, as is shown by the catalogue of his writings given above, which come to nearly 400 in number, ‘ae. counting those only the genuineness of which is not disputed. For many other written works and pointed oral sayings are attributed to him. There were in all eight Aristotles: (1) our philosopher himself; (2) an Athenian statesman,® the author of graceful forensic speeches; (3) a scholar who commented on the Iliad; (4) a Sicilian rhetorician, who wrote a reply to the Panegyric of Isocrates ; (5) a disciple of Aeschines the Socratic philosopher,