{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">5. Such being the case, to say that we are moved from\r\nwithout, and to put away the blame from ourselves, by declaring\r\nthat we are like to pieces of wood and stones, which\r\nare dragged about by those causes that act upon them from\r\nwithout, is neither true nor in conformity with reason, but is\r\nthe statement of him who wishes to destroy<a id=\"r379\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f379\"><sup>[379]</sup></a> the conception of\r\nfree-will. For if we were to ask such an one what was free-will,\r\nhe would say that it consisted in this, that when purposing\r\nto do some thing, no external cause came inciting to\r\nthe reverse. But to blame, on the other hand, the mere constitution\r\nof the body,<a id=\"r380\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f380\"><sup>[380]</sup></a> is absurd; for the disciplinary reason,<a id=\"r381\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f381\"><sup>[381]</sup></a>\r\ntaking hold of those who are most intemperate and savage\r\n(if they will follow her exhortation), effects a transformation,\r\nso that the alteration and change for the better is most extensive,—the\r\nmost licentious men frequently becoming better\r\nthan those who formerly did not seem to be such by nature;\r\nand the most savage men passing into such a state of mildness,<a id=\"r382\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f382\"><sup>[382]</sup></a>\r\nthat those persons who never at any time were so savage\r\nas they were, appear savage in comparison, so great a degree\r\nof gentleness having been produced within them. And we\r\nsee other men, most steady and respectable, driven from their\r\nstate of respectability and steadiness by intercourse with evil\r\ncustoms, so as to fall into habits of licentiousness, often beginning\r\ntheir wickedness in middle age, and plunging into\r\ndisorder after the period of youth has passed, which, so far\r\nas its nature is concerned, is unstable. Reason, therefore,\r\ndemonstrates that external events do not depend on us, but\r\nthat it is our own business to use them in this way or the\r\nopposite, having received reason as a judge and an investigator<a id=\"r383\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f383\"><sup>[383]</sup></a>\r\nof the manner in which we ought to meet those events\r\nthat come from without.</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-206"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a2acf636b7363cd8afae3bd9fc64829664d81ddd182626510bffff76886fc764","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f382","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":"f382","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f382\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r382\">382</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἡμερότητος.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f382","text_sha256":"ad4523d23810fc861017780d74c1e45e29d3744f926df7fa9d90ea8f7bebbe88","verified":false,"work_id":null}