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Here we will resume the particular discussion of the Moral

Virtues, and say what they are, what is their object-matter, and

how they stand respectively related to it: of course their number

will be thereby shown.

First, then, of Courage. Now that it is a mean state, in respect

of fear and boldness, has been already said: further, the objects

of our fears are obviously things fearful or, in a general way of

statement, evils; which accounts for the common definition of

fear, viz. "expectation of evil."