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we act under a necessity which we cannot then control.
I dare say they may be substantially right.
We cannot control the actions that are past.
But our future actions we can determine in a measure.
Knowing that we deliberate and formulate an ideal conduct and then, having formulated our ideal, we go through a process similar to that of impressing a lesson upon our memory wherebymere revolutions are converted into determination.
The body of our ideals which have resulted from out deliberations, and as truly so, if they are innate as if they are acquired, constitute, what Aquinas calls synderesis, that is our legislative conscience as christians - or as Boodists, or whatever our type od ideals may be.
In order to see how our resolutions work let us suppose a case.
In the course of my reflexions, I am led to think that it would be well for me to talk to a certain person in a certain way.
There upon, I resolve that I will do so, I consider how in the heat of conversation, I might be led to take a