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[58] It must be remembered, that [Greek: phronaesis] is used

throughout this chapter in two senses, its proper and complete

sense of Practical Wisdom, and its incomplete one of merely the

Intellectual Element of it.

BOOK VII

[1] The account of Virtue and Vice hitherto given represents

rather what men may be than what they are. In this book we take a

practical view of Virtue and Vice, in their ordinary, every day

development.

[2] This illustrates the expression, "Deceits of the Flesh."

[3] Another reading omits the [Greek:--]; the meaning of the

whole passage would be exactly the same-it would then run, "if he

had been convinced of the rightness of what he does, i.e. if he

were now acting on conviction, he might stop in his course on a

change of conviction."

[4] Major and minor Premises of the [Greek:--] [Greek--]

[5]Some necessarily implying knowledge of the particular, others

not.

[6] As a modern parallel, take old Trumbull in Scott's "Red

Gauntlet."