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Now this Intellectual operation and this Truth is what bears upon

Moral Action; of course truth and falsehood must be the good and

the bad of that Intellectual Operation which is purely

Speculative, and concerned neither with action nor production,

because this is manifestly the work of every Intellectual

faculty, while of the faculty which is of a mixed Practical and

Intellectual nature, the work is that Truth which, as I have

described above, corresponds to the right movement of the Will.

Now the starting-point of moral action is Moral Choice, (I mean,

what actually sets it in motion, not the final cause,)[7] and of

Moral Choice, Appetition, and Reason directed to a certain

result: and thus Moral Choice is neither independent of

intellect, i. e. intellectual operation, nor of a certain moral

state: for right or wrong action cannot be, independently of

operation of the Intellect, and moral character.