It is, in technical language, _wholly_ the body of Jesus Christ, but it cannot be said to be the _whole_ body of Jesus Christ.
The union of two things without change cannot enable us to say that one becomes the other.
Thus the soul is united to the body, the fire to the fuel, without change.
But change is necessary to make the form of the one become the form of the other.
Because my body without my soul would not make the body of a man, then my soul united to any matter whatsoever would make my body.
It distinguishes for me the necessary condition with a sufficient condition, the union is necessary, but not sufficient.
Identity of number in regard to the same time requires the identity of matter.
Thus if God united my soul to a body in China, the same body, _idem numero_ would be in China.
The same river which runs there is _idem numero_ as that which runs at the same time in China.
Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a manner, 1, that those to whom we speak can hear them without pain, and with pleasure; 2, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflect upon what is said. It consists therefore in a correspondence which we endeavour to establish between the mind and the heart of those to whom we speak on the one hand, and, on the other, the thoughts and the expressions employed; this supposes that we have thoroughly studied the heart of man so as to know all its springs, and to find at last the true proportions of the discourse we wish to suit to it. We should put ourselves in the place of those who are to listen to us, and make experiment on our own heart of the turn we give to our discourse, to see whether one is made for the other, and whether we can be sure that our auditor will be as it were forced to yield. So far as possible we must confine ourselves to what is natural and simple, not aggrandise that which is little, or belittle that which is great. It is not enough that a phrase be beautiful, it must be fitted to the subject, and not have in it excess or defect.
Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.
_Eloquence._--We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.