My LORD’s Bibledefects
3 occurrences across the corpus
OT Pseudepigrapha
The answer is that Reason is not master over defects inhering in the mind itself, but over the passions or moral defects that are adverse to justice and manliness and temperance and judgement; and its action in their case is not to extirpate the passions, but to enable us to resist them successfully.
The answer is that Reason is not master over defects inhering in the mind itself, but over the passions or moral defects that are adverse to justice and manliness and temperance and judgement; and its action in their case is not to extirpate the passions, but to enable us to resist them successfully.
But the argument is supremely ridiculous. For Reason is not shown to be master over passions or defects in itself, but over those of the body.