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[18] Before the time of trial comes the man deliberately makes

his Moral Choice to act rightly, but, at the moment of acting,

the powerful strain of desire makes him contravene this choice

his Will does not act in accordance with the affirmation or

negation of his Reason. His actions are therefore of the mixed

kind. See Book III. chap. i, and note on page 128.

[19] Let a man be punctual on principle to any one engagement in

the day, and he must, as a matter of course, keep all his others

in their due places relatively to this one; and so will often

wear an appearance of being needlessly punctilious in trifles.

[20] Because he is destitute of these minor springs of action,

which are intended to supply the defects of the higher principle.

See Bishop Butler's first Sermon on Compassion, and the

conclusion of note on p. 129.

BOOK VIII

[1] "Owe no man anything, but to love one another for he that

loveth another hath fulfilled the Law." Romans XIII. 8.