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of the man's nature, which is an efficient agency prepared previously to the act with the comparison of conduct with a standard, which comparison is a general mental formula subsequent to the act, and having identified these two utterly different things places them in the act itself as a mere quality of feeling.

Now if we recur to the defendent argument about reasoning, we shall find that it involves the same sort of tangle of ideas.
The phenomena of reasoning are in their general fealines, parallel to those of moral conduct.
For reasoning is essentially thought that is under self control, just as moral conduct is conduct under self-control.
Indeed reasoning is a species of controlled conduct and as such necessarily partakes of the essential features of controlled conduct.
If you attend to the phenomena of reasoning,