"But if the soul transmigrates and not the body," he argued, "what harm is there in consuming the vacated receptacle?"
"Once a Greech"
Evelyn E. Smith
Antony answers gravely: It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth; it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs: it lives by that which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
"The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays"
James Russell Lowell
The Buddha does not state what transmigrates, as the European reader would wish him to do, and would no doubt have replied to that question that it is improperly framed and does not admit of an answer.
"Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) An Historical Sketch"
Charles Eliot