From Augustine's City of God:
"Then (had there been no sin)....
... people can move their ears, either at one time or both together...
...a number of people produce at will such musical sounds from their behind (without any stink) that they seem to be singing from that region...
... I know a man who used to sweat whenever he chose...
.. We observe then that the body, even under present conditions, is an obedient servant to some people in a remarkable fashion...if this is so, is there any reason why we should not believe that before the sin of disobedience... the members of a man's body could have been the servant's of a man's will."
Book XIV, Chapter 24
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