The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-23
THE HUMAN SOUL.
Father Calmer on tho Union OF the Bod,
and Soul

and Soul.
Father Calmer's lecture at Washington
university last evening was about the "Hu
man Soul" the union of soul and body
The following is a synopsis of the lecture:
10 explain this union, IRON which results
In man unity of nature and unity o
person, we say, in the language OF scholas
TIC philosophy, that the soul is the form
the DO dy., [cf s. Thos. dc Spirit, Great. u
81 For the refutation of the more modern
system OF pre-established harmony, occa.
sional causes, of physical Influx, etc, suffice
it to state that they evidently DESTROY the
substantial unity Of man. [cf. Lberatore
del. Comp. Umano. C. 7, 1-3l
In philosophy form is an act, contradis-
tingYished from potentiality. Potentiority
implies The determinable act, that which
determines; the form, therefore, determines
thing to be Cei .ain mode of being, The
form watch determines its subject has an
intrinsic relation to IL, and exercises in its
iegard a tue casualty. 1t is distinct from
the other species Of casualty, as it exercises
It's cas- Ii J, not mediately, but imme-
dlatoly, by the communication of its own
entity. [cf. S. Thos in Metaph, lee. 2-1 p.
g.; ~ 7, and opusc, q dc Princip. Nat. !
The soul, therefore, being the form OF
dlate communication of its own entity,
lei. Suarez, de Amin. 1, | C. H., Ill
Moreover, form il substantial and acct
dental; the former gives esse simpliciter,
which supposes no other; the latter comes
TO subject already constituted in its sub
stantial esse, and gives esse secundum quid,
Q. g., speed in u race horse. The soul is the
substantial form Of the body, because it
communicates its substantial esse to the
body; the formal effect, produced by the
soul, is life, than which there is nothing
more substantial; the term, resulting from
the union of body and soul, is substantially
one. For further explanation [ct. Juarez.
Metph. d. 10, s. II. !, d. % g, l, n. Is, do
Amin. lect, l, @. IL, H. Ill Since being aud
unity are convertible, that which. is the
principle OF substantial being is also the
principle OF substantial unity. Again, since
substance and nature are the same, and ma
ture is the first principle of operation, that
which is the principle of substantial being
Is also the principle of operation. Icf. ST,
Thos. p. q. 10, a. |. 4.
TO explain how from the union of body
and soul there results unity of person aud
OF essence, substance or nature, ST.. Thomas
has made use OF the general theory con.
corning the essential constituents of cor
poreal substances. Hence ke laws down, | ,
| 1900 Nv '".ioAo ooui ihililtuldtcly lulOTIuS
not the body constituted by another form
in the genus Of substance and in deter.
mined species, but materia prima; 2, that
the. soul, keeping to itself in diligence of
which matter is incapable, communicates
to the body, not only sensation, human
and living, being, but the very being or sub.
stance OF body; 3, that, therefore, the soul
does not actuate the body, already com.
plete as a substance, but completes It rs re.
CARDS its first being or its substance.
From this it maniiestly follows that the
soul united to the body constitutes in
man truly and really the unity of sub
stance, OF essence, OF nature and person.
ci' ST. Thomas %. dlsp, dc Amin, u. O., in
ode Amin leot. l..
Finally, in the opinion Of the moderns,
which space does not permit us TO eluci
date, the soul cannot be substantial form;
, Tor the body antecedently to its union with
. the soul, is already complete substance
, and, therefoae, the soul only communicate.
to IT accidental being; and what then be
comes OF the substantial unity of man?
/ Father Calmer's mex. lecture will be
continuation of the one given last night
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