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But Practical Wisdom is employed upon human matters, and such as

are objects of deliberation (for we say, that to deliberate well

is most peculiarly the work of the man who possesses this

Wisdom), and no man deliberates about things which cannot be

otherwise than they are, nor about any save those that have some

definite End and this End good resulting from Moral Action; and

the man to whom we should give the name of Good in Counsel,

simply and without modification, is he who in the way of

calculation has a capacity for attaining that of practical goods

which is the best for Man.