Let's just ask the question,Is it true that the soul theory-- if only there were souls-- is it true that the soul theory would at least have the following advantage?

让我们就问一个问题，如果灵魂理论是真-,如果有灵魂的存在-,灵魂理论就能有以下优势吗？

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If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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