XII. THE SUPERNATURAL LIFE (b) how it works in the soul In the last chapter the channels by which the Supernatural Life comes to the soul were dealt with. In this we must consider the life itself and its effects upon the soul. It is to be observed how careful Scripture is to make clear that grace — the gift of the Supernatural Life — does not destroy Nature, but elevates it. ,“1 make all things new,” says Christ: not ‘T make all new things.” What He said of the law of Moses — ‘T come not to destroy but to fulfil” — He might have said of human nature. He took human nature and into it poured a new thing, thus renewing it, making it new. He did not give new faculties to the soul, but He gave the existing faculties of intellect and will new powers of action, powers to act above their natural level. Here again we must follow very closely if we are to grasp the real nature of our road. Man by nature is a union of body and soul. The soul has two faculties — the intellect and the will. Now every faculty of man has first its own proper and second its own proper object. Thus the eye has its action — namely, to see: and its object — namely, coloured surface. So the intellect has its I2I