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The Moving Soul Eric VoegelinWhat Is History? and Other Late Unpublished Writings: The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Vol. 28. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Chapter 4, "The Moving Soul" was completed in 1969.   I. Margeneau's Fancy The theories of Einstein and Minkowski have brought new precision to the concept of simultaniety. In Henry Margeneau's Nature and Physical Reality (1950), we find on this point the following reflections: It is seen that the concept of simultaneity has lost its universal character; events simultaneous to one observer may not be simultaneous to another....Hard-boiled classicists sometimes insist...