What, then ?" "Then the danger is great.

Imagine yourself with Addison's soul or nature, him with yours.

To what might not you be led?
How do you know that your nature in him would exert any control over his nature in you ?" "Why should it not ?" "There comes in the power of the body, which is very great.

I believe, as you know, absolutely in the existence of the soul, and in its immortal destiny; but that does not blind me to the extraordinary influence, the extraordinary kingship, which a mere body, a mere husk and shell, as some good people call it--I don't feel with them--can obtain not only over another body, but, strangely, over the soul which is in that body.

Your influence over Addison has been, and is, immense.