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3. But that of our own which thus has to do with the handling of
corporeal and temporal things, is indeed rational, in that it is not
common to us with the beasts; but it is drawn, as it were, out of
that rational substance of our mind, by which we depend upon and cleave
to the intelligible and unchangeable truth, and which is deputed to
handle and direct the inferior things. For as among all the beasts
there was not found for the man a help like unto him, unless one were
taken from himself, and formed to be his consort: so for that mind,
by which we consult the supernal and inward truth, there is no like
help for such employment as man's nature requires among things
corporeal out of those parts of the soul which we have in common with
the beasts. And so a certain part of our reason, not separated so as
to sever unity, but, as it were, diverted so as to be a help to
fellowship, is parted off for the performing of its proper work. And
as the twain is one flesh in the case of male and female, so in the
mind one nature embraces our intellect and action, or our counsel and
performance, or our reason and rational appetite, or whatever other
more significant terms there may be by which to express them; so that,
as it was said of the former, "And they two shall be in one flesh,"
it may be said of these, they two are in one mind.
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