But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust?
Christ's soul has a mode connatural to a human soul.
Thus it is plain that it is theconnatural mode of the human soul to receive knowledge as a habit.
Now the connatural mode of the human soul is that it should understand sometimes actually, and sometimes potentially.
And hence to use comparison and discursion is connatural to the souls of the blessed, but not to angels.
Now it is connatural to a human soul to receive species of a lesser universality than the angels receive; so that it knows different specific natures by different intelligible species.
Thus the human mind has no criterion of truth within itself, no elements of knowledge which are connatural and inborn.
There are ideas connatural to the human reason which are the copies of those archetypal ideas which belong to the Eternal Reason.
It comes from the old one, from the sire and dam; yea, it is also now become connatural to and with them, and is of the same date with the child as born into the world.
My friend, the fatal malady that has been for so many generations connatural in our family has now claimed another victim.
And believe me, my dear Pepe, this peaceful isolation has greatly contributed to preserve me from the terrible malady connatural in my family.
But hatred of one's connatural good cannot be first, but is something last, because such like hatred is a proof of an already corrupted nature, even as love of an extraneous good.
Love of self-preservation, for the sake of which one shuns perils of death, is much more connatural than any pleasures whatever of food and sex which are directed to the preservation of life.
Continence is a good of the human reason: wherefore it regards those passions which can be connatural to man.
Wherefore this pleasure is very desirable as regards the sensitive appetite, both on account of the intensity of the pleasure, and because such like concupiscence is connatural to man.
Now a thing is indebted in a special way to that which is its connatural principle of being and government.
For "delight is the unhindered action of a connatural habit" (Ethic.
Faith directs the intention with regard to the supernatural last end: but even the light of natural reason can direct the intention in respect of a connatural good.
Now no act is perfectly produced by an active power, unless it be connatural to that power by reason of some form which is the principle of that action.
Lest He snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you"; in another way, as regards the manner connatural to man, which is that he should understand the truth through sensible things.
Uprightness as such does not pertain to the notion of state, except in so far as it is connatural to man with the addition of a certain restfulness.
But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To Death, and mix with our connatural dust?
But it is arbitrary to assume the existence of a power which could never pass fully into the act connatural to it.
These it realizes gradually, through the exercise of its connatural activities.
No real being is by nature inert or aimless; no real being is without its connatural faculties, forces and functions.
The Body of our Blessed Lord exists in the Eucharist without its connatural external extension and consequent impenetrability.
Blessed Eucharist: here we know from Divine Revelation that the accidents of bread and wine exist apart from their connatural substance.
Hence we may confine our attention here to the distinction between these two classes of accident and their connatural substances.
Similarly the accident of quantity sustained without its connatural substance in the Eucharist, retains its transcendental relation to the latter.
How connatural this strange, unreasoning, reckless courage was with their regenerate state is shown most signally in St. Paul, as having been a convert of later vocation.
Another principle is man's habitual inclination to do good, by reason of which doing good becomesconnatural to him: for which reason the liberal man takes pleasure in giving to others.
Now among the virtues directed to the connatural end there is but one natural virtue, viz.
Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things": and this, because it is pleasant to obtain what we desire, and to do those actions which are connatural to us by reason of habit.
It is pleasant to do what we are wont to do, inasmuch as this is connatural to us, as it were.
Since therefore everyone takes pleasure in a connatural operation, as stated in Ethic.
And since works of virtue are connatural to reason, while works of vice are contrary to nature, therefore it is that works of virtue are called fruits, but not so works of vice.
For the theological virtues are in relation to Divine happiness, what the natural inclination is in relation to the connatural end.
For the appetite of a thing is moved and tends towards its connatural end naturally; and this movement is due to a certain conformity of the thing with its end.
Or rather, Jacobinism and Infidelity were the two heads of the Revolutionary Geryon--connatural misgrowths of the same monster-trunk.
We must be satisfied if in this ceaseless struggle with man's hereditary and connatural fault of error, the progress though slow is sure.
For the fact of such an inborn and connatural obstacle every one will admit, even though he may refuse to explain it by the evil principle and may be unwilling to receive the explanation which revelation gives of it.
I answer that, The species whereby the angels understand are not drawn from things, but are connatural to them.
For if he had such knowledge it would be either by acquired species, or by connatural species, or by infused species.
All men are of one species, and have one connatural mode of understanding; which is not the case in the angels: and hence the same argument does not apply to both.
Even granted that he could abstract intelligible species from material things, yet he would not do so; because he would not need them, for he has connatural intelligible species.
If by species, is it by connatural species, or is it by such as they have derived from things?
They are not so contrary as the North and South Poles; and that they are connatural pieces of one circle.
Not but that divine authority must concur with love to produce obedience, especially while love is but imperfect: but that love is the highest principle, making the commanded good connatural to us.
It is that primitive life which was most connatural to the soul of man, which sin did deprive us of.
Sin is become connatural to the flesh, and so a man, by the flesh, is ensnared and subjected to sin.
And then the flesh, as it is the greatest retardment in good, it is the greatest incitement to evil, it is a bosom enemy, that betrays us to Satan, it is near us and connatural to us.
Footnote 85: An admission that national "character" is not a connatural or fixed bias, but a simple function of variables.
The sesame seed has naturally the oil inherent in it, and the body has also its incidents connatural with it; he who is not subject to his bodily accidents, is able to sever the wind and air with his sword.
The incarnation of Vishnu in the form of Arjuna, will comprise all the qualities incident to humanity; and will be fraught with the feelings of joy and vengeance, which are connatural with mankind.
It is the idea which contains in itself, radically and in principle, all possible development of thought and knowledge, according to the law of growth connatural to the human intelligence.
Honour is primarily a connatural right: reputation is acquired.
Connatural rights spring from the very being of a man, as he is a person.
If the matrimonial union were wicked and detestable, as the Manicheans taught, then would the passion of love be an abomination connatural to man.
It is the restitution of us to the state of our Creation, to the use of our Principles, to our healthful Constitution and to Acts that are connatural to us.
The Truths of God are connaturalto the soul of man, and the soul of man makes no more resistance to them than the air does to light.
