and intimate than the first. By birth we are members of a family; by rebirth, of a body. At its very best, the unity of the members of a family is only a shadow of the organic unity of the members of a body—to be brothers of one another is as nothing compared to being members of one another. And the human family into which we enter by birth is by no means the family at its very best, but a widely scattered family, which has largely forgotten that it is a family: for its head, Adam, died in a dim