Jowett: nature of soul

Must we not, said Socrates  , ask ourselves some question of this sort ? — What is that which, as we imagine, is liable to be scattered away, and about which we fear ? and what again is that about which we have no fear ? And then we may proceed to inquire whether that which suffers dispersion is or is not of the nature of soul — our hopes and fears as to our own souls will turn upon that. PHAEDO  

Ath. Do not all human things partake of the nature of soul ? And is not man the most religious of all animals ? LAWS BOOK X