صفحة 395 من 734

For instance, let the universal be, "All that is sweet should be

tasted," the particular, "This is sweet;" it follows necessarily

that he who is able and is not hindered should not only draw, but

put in practice, the conclusion "This is to be tasted." When then

there is in the mind one universal proposition forbidding to

taste, and the other "All that is sweet is pleasant" with its

minor "This is sweet" (which is the one that really works), and

desire happens to be in the man, the first universal bids him

avoid this but the desire leads him on to taste; for it has the

power of moving the various organs: and so it results that he

fails in Self-Control, in a certain sense under the influence of

Reason and Opinion not contrary in itself to Reason but only

accidentally so; because it is the desire that is contrary to

Right Reason, but not the Opinion:[7] and so for this reason

brutes are not accounted of Imperfect Self-Control, because they

have no power of conceiving universals but only of receiving and

retaining particular impressions.