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In a purely compulsory case the never gets beyond the stage of

Wish, for no means are power and deliberation therefore is

useless, consequently there is neither Decision nor Will, in

other words, no Choice.

[13] Compare the statement in the Rhetoric, 1 10, [Greek: esti d

hae men boulaeis agathou orexis (oudeis gar bouletai all ae otan

oiaetho einai agathon)]

[14] A stone once set in motion cannot be recalled, because it is

then placed under the operation of natural laws which cannot be

controlled or altered, so too in Moral declension, there is a

point at which gravitation operates irretrievably, "there is a

certain bound to imprudence and misbehaviour which being

transgressed, there remains no place for repentance in the

natural course of things." Bishop Butler's Analogy, First Part,

chap 11.

[15] Habits being formed by acting in a certain way under certain

circumstances we can only choose how we will act not what

circumstances we will have to act under.