Rise You From The Grave And Speak, Tertullian

I call in a new testimony, yea, one which is better known than all literature, more discussed than all doctrine, more public than all publications, greater than the whole man--

I mean all which is man's.

Stand forth, O soul, whether thou art a divine and eternal substance, as most philosophers believe if it be so,-or whether thou art the very opposite of divine, because indeed a mortal thing, whether thou art received from heaven, or sprung from earth; whether thou art formed of numbers, or of atoms; whether thine existence begins with that of the body, or thou art put into it at a later stage; from whatever source, and in whatever way, thou makest man a rational being, in the highest degree capable of thought and knowledge...

Stand forth and give thy witness...