{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For of objects that are moved, some are moved by impulse and\r\nappearance, as animals; and some by transposition, as inanimate\r\nobjects. And of things without life, plants, they say, are moved\r\nby transposition in order to growth, if we will concede to them\r\nthat plants are without life. To stones, then, belongs a permanent\r\nstate. Plants have a nature; and the irrational animals possess\r\nimpulse and perception, and likewise the two characteristics already\r\nspecified.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_225\" id=\"FNanchor_225\">[225]</a> But the reasoning faculty, being peculiar to the human\r\nsoul, ought not to be impelled similarly with the irrational animals,\r\nbut ought to discriminate appearances, and not to be carried away by\r\nthem. The powers, then, of which we have spoken hold out beautiful\r\nsights, and honours, and adulteries, and pleasures, and such like\r\nalluring phantasies before facile spirits; as those who drive away\r\ncattle hold out branches to them. Then, having beguiled those incapable\r\nof distinguishing the true from the false pleasure, and the fading and\r\nmeretricious from the holy beauty, they lead them into slavery. And\r\neach deceit, by pressing constantly on the spirit, impresses its image\r\non it; and the soul unwittingly carries about the image of the passion,\r\nwhich takes its rise from the bait and our consent.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC EXERCISES PATIENCE AND SELF-RESTRAINT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_225","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-100"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7e7f9b823ead22a47b67a50fa96c1d84e4f25785ded54c3ca3aa42077633993e","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_225","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_225","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_225\" id=\"Footnote_225\">[225]</a> <i>i.e.</i> Permanent state and nature.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_225","text_sha256":"47b63d872cbb7dcac784ab5594d4d29ae88197a40a53ace0f5299de0339cef69","verified":false,"work_id":null}