Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

CHAPTERVIII.THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN." Totus Christus caput et corpus est. Caput unigenitus Dei Films, etcorpus ejus Ecclesia, Sponsus et Sponsa, duo in carne una." S. Aug.de Unitate Ecc. tom. ix. 341." Totus Christus, id est, caput et membra." S. Thomas, Prolog, ad 1Sentent. art. 4.LET us look back on the space which we havetraversed, and gather up in a few words the sightwhich it presents to us. We have man before usas far ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^V^^^^^^^las history will I^H^^^^^^^^^I carry us back, as far asreasoning, planting itself on the scanty traces ofhistory, will penetrate into the cloudland of prehistorictimes : and the result stands before usexhibited in the manifold records still remainingof the most renowned ancient civilisation. Herethen, we see nations whose genius, whether in history,poetry, and literature, or in works of art, or111 civil government, we still admire comprisingmen in many of whom the powers of reason reachedtheir utmost limit; nations inhabiting the mostvaried climates and countries, and amongst themthe fairest in the world, nations formed under themost different tances and pursuing the m t