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Now, from what has been here said, that is also plain which was

said before. I mean, it is no easy matter to define how, and with

what persons, and at what kind of things, and how long one ought

to be angry, and up to what point a person is right or is wrong.

For he that transgresses the strict rule only a little, whether

on the side of too much or too little, is not blamed: sometimes

we praise those who are deficient in the feeling and call them

Meek, sometimes we call the irritable Spirited as being well

qualified for government. So it is not easy to lay down, in so

many words, for what degree or kind of transgression a man is

blameable: because the decision is in particulars, and rests

therefore with the Moral Sense.