The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-27

SOcletleS, furthermOfe, haSo eo"A
body, and therefore a person, as well as IN
dividuals. The body polite, being the ag-
gregate of individuals, must partake OF
their properties and peculiarities, and there
| fore be neither more nor less than the null
duplication of the body human. This soul
is the principle, the idea which God, the
creator of all society, gives us of Aimsell
through his WORD, per dne"s tecit ct sec"eo
it is the unity which informs and AMI
mates every social organization. Inc body
is the variety informed and animated by
it; and the personality is the expression OF
both unity and variety combined. 10
make this matter clearer to the genera
reader, we will simply direct his attention
to his ordinary phraseology. He will talk
you almost to death on "my body, my
soul.N 81 feel pains in the one, am soreiy
afflicted in the other" but seems never to
imagine that his I, that something In the
name of which he talks, while it is the ex-
| preston, is entirely independent OF both.
It is the personality. Here, If we wished
to subtitle, we might discover a certain re-
mote relation to the adorable Trinity; but
we prefer, to any theory of our own, the IN
spired doctrine of St. Paul, to whose noble
philosophy the learned reader must long
before this have detected our Indebtedness.
The two natures in Jesus Christ, the two
Wills, and the one person overlapping them
give the only rational solution imaginable of
the theorem of human society-only- He
has reconciled that which otherwise was
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS extremes meet-har-
rnonized reason and revelation, and united
man and God in one and the same divine
Person. elm Him is our peace, who hath
made both things one" In 60 enim est par
nostra, QUE fecit utraque ununa.
We have given hasty and imperfect,
but, as far as our space admitted, not mac
cnrate nntruthfnl sketch Of human soci
ETY.. We have given this sketch with as
little prejudice or Partially as it could be
given by an interested party. We own
that we are yet member of it, and are, as
well as all the other descendants of Adam,
subject to it's laws; but we are forced to
confess that outside of the Church, we look
for this society in vain. The human race
became extinct in the days of Phaleg, be
cause there was dissolved universal society;
and death decreed by God against individ-
uals as the punishment of the original
transgression, was now for the same reason
inflicted on the whole body of transgres-
sors. The event of Babel gave the finish
ing stroke to this dissolution, the germs of
which had been developing in the vitals of
humanity since the fall. Ever after uni
versal society ceased to be a fact; and even
now, when we speak of the human race,
we express only a physiological abstraction,
or the dream of some piOus enthusiast.
Yet few relics, or "reminiscences of origi-
nal unity still remained, for mankind never
wholly lost sight Of the primitive revela-
ton; the law of nations was never totally
forgotten even by the widest and most I'M
cultivated tribes war, the inevitable re-
suit of disintegration, never became the
normal condition Of man, and the light of
civilization, though smothered in many
places, was never without some shady spot
on earth, where it could shine with a faint
but steady brightness. A low but audible
! voice still spoke to the minds of men
telling them they yet we're bfothers,
and whispering suggestions of love amid
all their fierce and implacable hates. This
voice may have been prophecy of a bet
ter day to come; it surely was a remnis-
cence, family glimmering twilight of the
good day past forever.
Ito be continued)
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