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And are there not many other cases in which we observe that when

a man's desires violently prevail over his reason, he reviles

himself, and is angry at the violence within him, and that in

this struggle, which is like the struggle of factions in a State,

his spirit is on the side of his reason;-but for the passionate

or spirited element to take part with the desires when reason

decides that she should not be opposed, is a sort of thing which

I believe that you never observed occurring in yourself, nor, as

I should imagine, in any one else?

Certainly not.

Suppose that a man thinks he has done a wrong to another, the

nobler he is the less able is he to feel indignant at any

suffering, such as hunger, or cold, or any other pain which the

injured person may inflict upon him-these he deems to be just,

and, as I say, his anger refuses to be excited by them.

True, he said.