{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Hence it is that even the philosophers who have approximated\r\nto the truth have avowed that anger and lust are vicious\r\nmental emotions, because, even when exercised towards objects\r\nwhich wisdom does not prohibit, they are moved in an ungoverned\r\nand inordinate manner, and consequently need the\r\nregulation of mind and reason. And they assert that this third\r\npart of the mind is posted as it were in a kind of citadel, to give\r\nrule to these other parts, so that, while it rules and they serve,\r\nman's righteousness is preserved without a breach.<a id=\"FNanchor_110_110\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_110_110\">[110]</a> These\r\nparts, then, which they acknowledge to be vicious even in a\r\nwise and temperate man, so that the mind, by its composing\r\nand restraining influence, must bridle and recall them from\r\nthose objects towards which they are unlawfully moved, and\r\ngive them access to those which the law of wisdom sanctions,—that\r\nanger, <i>e.g.</i>, may be allowed for the enforcement of a just\r\nauthority, and lust for the duty of propagating offspring,—these\r\nparts, I say, were not vicious in Paradise before sin,\r\nfor they were never moved in opposition to a holy will towards\r\nany object from which it was necessary that they should be\r\nwithheld by the restraining bridle of reason. For though\r\nnow they are moved in this way, and are regulated by a\r\nbridling and restraining power, which those who live temperately,\r\njustly, and godly exercise, sometimes with ease, and\r\nsometimes with greater difficulty, this is not the sound health\r\nof nature, but the weakness which results from sin. And how\r\nis it that shame does not hide the acts and words dictated by\r\nanger or other emotions, as it covers the motions of lust,\r\nunless because the members of the body which we employ for\r\naccomplishing them are moved, not by the emotions themselves,\r\nbut by the authority of the consenting will? For he\r\nwho in his anger rails at or even strikes some one, could not\r\ndo so were not his tongue and hand moved by the authority\r\nof the will, as also they are moved when there is no anger.\r\nBut the organs of generation are so subjected to the rule of\r\nlust, that they have no motion but what it communicates.\r\nIt is this we are ashamed of; it is this which blushingly<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_36\">[Pg 36]</a></span>\r\nhides from the eyes of onlookers. And rather will a man\r\nendure a crowd of witnesses when he is unjustly venting his\r\nanger on some one, than the eye of one man when he innocently\r\ncopulates with his wife.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-72"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5d75312255bb04c8112232a98a03220ddfa271d6f87c2e92bed0cad2fe8d87e6","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_110_110","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":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_110_110","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_110_110\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_110_110\"><span class=\"label\">[110]</span></a> See Plato's <i>Republic</i>, book iv.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_110_110","text_sha256":"6ed45c310b2ccd3168a0167847ad8f1bea866ec961d25dc75b24d0ef486ea323","verified":false,"work_id":null}