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For this reason the food, and manner of living generally, ought

to be the subject of legal regulation, because things when become

habitual will not be disagreeable.

Yet perhaps it is not sufficient that men while young should get

right food and tendance, but, inasmuch as they will have to

practise and become accustomed to certain things even after they

have attained to man's estate, we shall want laws on these points

as well, and, in fine, respecting one's whole life, since the

mass of men are amenable to compulsion rather than Reason, and to

punishment rather than to a sense of honour.