{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">3. The rational animal, however, has, in addition to its\r\nphantasial nature, also reason, which judges the phantasies,\r\nand disapproves of some and accepts others, in order that the\r\nanimal may be led according to them. Therefore, since\r\nthere are in the nature of reason aids towards the contemplation\r\nof virtue and vice, by following which, after beholding\r\ngood and evil, we select the one and avoid the other, we are\r\ndeserving of praise when we give ourselves to the practice of\r\nvirtue, and censurable when we do the reverse. We must\r\nnot, however, be ignorant that the greater part of the nature\r\nassigned to all things is a varying quantity<a id=\"r368\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f368\"><sup>[368]</sup></a> among animals,\r\nboth in a greater and a less degree; so that the instinct in\r\nhunting-dogs and in war-horses approaches somehow, so to\r\nspeak, to the faculty of reason. Now, to fall under some\r\none of those external causes which stir up within us this\r\nphantasy or that, is confessedly not one of those things that\r\nare dependent upon ourselves; but to determine that we shall\r\nuse the occurrence in this way or differently, is the prerogative\r\nof nothing else than of the reason within us, which, as\r\noccasion offers,<a id=\"r369\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f369\"><sup>[369]</sup></a> arouses us towards efforts inciting to what is\r\nvirtuous and becoming, or turns us aside to what is the\r\nreverse.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-202"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c3c596252332bc2d3f6bfd5d30dcc25173b34223c42b8c3ffa4fd53a69f7c10a","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f368","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 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f368","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f368\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r368\">368</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ποσῶς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f368","text_sha256":"bb438e22d6a1df60e01cbde7e679cbc51fa3d597f30629a237b851c6481f89e7","verified":false,"work_id":null}