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Further, that this aiming at the End is no matter of one's own

choice, but one must be born with a power of mental vision, so to

speak, whereby to judge fairly and choose that which is really

good; and he is blessed by nature who has this naturally well:

because it is the most important thing and the fairest, and what

a man cannot get or learn from another but will have such as

nature has given it; and for this to be so given well and fairly

would be excellence of nature in the highest and truest sense."

If all this be true, how will Virtue be a whit more voluntary

than Vice? Alike to the good man and the bad, the End gives its

impression and is fixed by nature or howsoever you like to say,

and they act so and so, referring everything else to this End.