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And a proof that the term is thus applied is that the kindred

term "Soft" is used in respect of these enjoyments but not in

respect of any of those others. And for this reason we put into

the same rank the man of Imperfect Self-Control, the man who has

lost it entirely, the man who has it, and the man of Perfected

Self-Mastery; but not any of those other characters, because the

former have for their object-matter the same pleasures and pains:

but though they have the same object-matter, they are not related

to it in the same way, but two of them act upon moral choice, two

without it.