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1908 Nov 18
Logic
I.i. 3

are neither a child nor a dullard, but are a normal adult
of more than average intelligence.

As such, you are well aware that the exercise of control over
one's own habits is perhaps the most important business of life,
meaning by a habit an object whose being lies in an enduring state of a person which con-
sists in a tendency to act, mentaly or bodily, in a certain general way,
whenever he has been acted on in a certain general way, regard-
less of how this tendency may have been established.