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Again, if the having strong and bad lusts is necessary to the

idea of the man of Self-Control, this character cannot be

identical with the man of Perfected Self-Mastery, because the

having strong desires or bad ones does not enter into the idea of

this latter character: and yet the man of Self-Control must have

such: for suppose them good; then the moral state which should

hinder a man from following their suggestions must be bad, and so

Self-Control would not be in all cases good: suppose them on the

other hand to be weak and not wrong, it would be nothing grand;

nor anything great, supposing them to be wrong and weak.