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  CONFESSIONS - BOOK X - CHAPTER VII
  by St. Augustine
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11. What is it, then, that I love when I love my God? Who is he that is
beyond the topmost point of my soul? Yet by this very soul will I mount
up to him. I will soar beyond that power of mine by which I am united to
the body, and by which the whole structure of it is filled with life.
Yet it is not by that vital power that I find my God. For then \"the
horse and the mule, that have no understanding,\"[336] also might find
him, since they have the same vital power, by which their bodies also
live. But there is, besides the power by which I animate my body,
another by which I endow my flesh with sense--a power that the Lord hath
provided for me; commanding that the eye is not to hear and the ear is
not to see, but that I am to see by the eye and to hear by the ear; and
giving to each of the other senses its own proper place and function,
through the diversity of which I, the single mind, act. I will soar also
beyond this power of mine, for the horse and mule have this too, for
they also perceive through their bodily senses.

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