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The having any of these inclinations is something foreign to what

is denominated Vice, just as Brutishness is: and when a man has

them his mastering them is not properly Self-Control, nor his

being mastered by them Imperfection of Self-Control in the proper

sense, but only in the way of resemblance; just as we may say a

man of ungovernable wrath fails of Self-Control in respect of

anger but not simply fails of Self-Control. For all excessive

folly, cowardice, absence of Self-Control, or irritability, are

either Brutish or morbid. The man, for instance, who is naturally

afraid of all things, even if a mouse should stir, is cowardly

after a Brutish sort; there was a man again who, by reason of

disease, was afraid of a cat: and of the fools, they who are

naturally destitute of Reason and live only by Sense are Brutish,

as are some tribes of the far-off barbarians, while others who

are so by reason of diseases, epileptic or frantic, are in morbid

states.