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 Of course there can be no faculty without an organ of faculty. But the potency of all the faculties is primarily in the human essence. The soul, necessarily a complete human form, having organs for all its faculties, is the real, sentient being. This basic principle is not new. Paul says: "There is a natural body, and there is" (not will be) "a spiritual body." This is but another way of saying that man is the soul and has a body. If any sense is wanting, as in the blind or deaf, it is not that the faculty is not in the person of the soul, but it is because the physical instrument is out of adjustment to the inner faculty, to which the sense organ bears the same relation as an impaired lens to the eye, or a broken ear-trumpet to the ear. Correct the material eye and the soul will see; repair the ear and the soul will hear.

Now if we have succeeded in drawing the distinction between a merely