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So far as what must take place in every Moral Action, right or

wrong, the Machinery of the mind being supposed uninjured but to

constitute a good Moral Choice, i e.. a good Action, the Reason

must have said Aye when it ought.

The cases of faulty action will be, either when the Machinery is

perfect but wrongly directed, as in the case of a deliberate

crime, or when the direction given by the Reason is right but the

Will does not move in accordance with that direction, in other

words, when the Machinery is out of order; as in the case of the

[Greek: akrates]-video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor.

[7] See the note on [Greek: Arche] on page 4, l. 30.

[8] The cobbler is at his last, why? to make shoes, which are to

clothe the feet of someone and the price to be paid, i.e. the

produce of his industry, is to enable him to support his wife and

children; thus his production is subordinate to Moral Action.