A MAP OF LIFE action which is to know or be aware of: and its object which is truth. Likewise the will has its action which is to love and its object which is goodness. In other words, the intellect knows things in so far as they appear to the soul true : and the will loves things in so far as they appear to the soul good. Now the supreme truth is God: so that the intellect’s highest task is to know God. And the supreme goodness is God, so that the will’s highest task is to love God. The natural life of man’s soul might be set out as follows : SUPREME FACULTY. ACTION. OBJECT OBJECT. r Intellect . . to know . . truth . . God ^oul I goodness God Thus if we had no revelation from God as to His purpose in creating man, we might deduce from the study of man’s nature that he was meant to know and to love God. And this answer would be, as a mere matter of words, correct. But it would be wrong in fact: for it would not rise above the knowing and loving proper to our nature, and God has revealed to us that our destiny is to know him directly, face to face, and to love Him according to that knowledge. For this, as we have seen, we need new powers, and God gives us these by grace. When grace comes in, intellect and will are supernaturalized — that is, their nature is not destroyed but given the power of higher action. The intellect retains its objects, namely, truth, but its action is 122