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that is was [?] preservation from [?] to guard the fundamental idea perhaps is to wrap up while with a short vowel [?] VTEP means to remove the surface the reference must be to the embers of conscience left in [Adorn?] after the fall and preserved alike in the breasts of all. It is oftencalled the judicatorium, in quo scrito est les naturalis. It appears to have been regards as an impulse toward the good and it is futher said to be the "morsus conscientine." Aquinas defines it as "lex intellctus nostri inquantum est habitus continens praecepta legis naturalix quae suns prima operum humanorum." (Summa theol. sec cec q xciv. art1.) Although Descartes was almost the last writer to use the word yet it is familiar enough to all students of ethics. There is nothing in the great doctors of scholasticism to warrant the statement and that it is merely the natural knowledge of the general laws and is correlated to the particular act. It is that habit of the soul from which word judgements spring. Conscientia among the scholastics