This is, however, a manifest paralogism. If, in fact, the human person is the human nature _left to itself_, the nature assumed by the Word will certainly not be a human person, since it is clear that the nature thus assumed is _not left to itself_. This suffices to show the inconsistency of the objection. Let us add that it is not entirely correct to say that by the Incarnation the human nature is separated from the human person; it would be more correct to say that the human nature is prevented from having that natural subsistence which would make it a human person. Lastly, it has been said that, if the human nature which has been assumed by the Eternal Word was entirely complete, the union of the Word with it could not be intimate and substantial. Hence, according to this reasoning, there must have been something wanting in the human nature assumed, which something has been supplied by the hypostatic union. We cannot but repeat, with S. Thomas, that the human nature assumed by the Word is absolutely perfect, and therefore exempt from any deficiency which could have been supplied by the hypostatic union. And as for the reason alleged, we say that it is grounded on a false supposition. The union of the Word with the human nature is not a conspiration of the divine and the human into oneness of _substance_, for the thing would be impossible; and therefore it is not wholly correct to say that the union is _substantial_. The proper term is _hypostatic_—that is, _personal_; for, in fact, the human nature conspires with the divine Word into oneness of _person_, the two natures or substances remaining entirely distinct. Now, the oneness of person is not obtained by supplying any deficiency in the human nature, but by _adding_, as S. Thomas teaches, to the perfect human nature that which is above it—that is, by the Word taking possession of it in his own person. Such are the principal reasons advanced by those who consider human personality, and suppositality in general, as a positive mode. We think we have answered them sufficiently.