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THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN.99serving them from error, and leading them to theeternal inheritance.It is also by this one "power of the Holy Ghostcoming upon men" that we learn how the Head andthe Body make one Christ. As in the human T framethe presence of the soul gives it life and unity,binding together every member by that secret indivisibleforce, from the least to the greatest, fromthe heart and brain to the minutest portion of theoutward skin, so hi this divine Body, which makesthe whole Christ, it is the presence of the HolyGhost, as of the soul, which gives it unity andlife. The conclusion was drawn by a great Saint,and no less great a genius, fourteen hundred yearsago, and I prefer S. Augustine's words to any whichI can use myself: "Our spirit by which the wholerace of man lives is called the soul; our spirit, too,by which each man in particular lives is called thesoul; and you see what the soul does in the body.It quickens all the limbs : through the eyes it sees,through the ears it hears, through the nostrilssmells, through the tongue speaks, through thhands works, through the feet walks ; it is presenat once in all the limbs that they may live ; life itLves to all, their functions to each.The enot hear, nor the ear nor the tongue see, nor the ear "nor the eye speak, but both live; the functions arediverse, the life common. So is the Church of God.In some saints it works miracles ;. in others givesvoice to the truth; in others, again, maintains the