Do you imagine that it is simply your nature which governs him ?" "I suppose so." "Your mere appearance may have an immense deal to do with the matter.
You have the look, the expression, of one who has not sinned.

It is partly that which keeps Addison from giving the reins to his impulses.
I consider that if it were possible for your nature to change secretly and for your face to remain unchanged, if you sinned perpetually and retained your exact appearance, and if Addison did not know you sinned, you could still be his guardian, while, really, yourself far worse in every way than him." "But surely that fights against your theory that the existence of a soul is proved by such an influence as I possess over Addison ?" "Not at all.

I said if it were possible for the body not to express the soul, if--but that's just the difficulty, it is not possible.

The body manifests the soul.

Supposing it were not so, the power of evil, the devil, if you choose to name it and imply a personal existence for it, might have hold of the world even more tightly than now.