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Logic IV. 28
what we shold be on fall deliberation content to take as a good independently of any effects of it and how serious a sacrifice we should be willing to make for the sake ot it. We are therefore to take the heart as witness bu the head as jury. The heart must be skillfully interrogated and from her responses the head is to draw its own conclusions whether the heart can be brought to acquiesce in them or not.
I will begin by making a list of end which have been regarded as ultimate.
1. An early proverb is in the mouth of nectar (Hiad M. 243) [??????].
"The very best of signs is that one defends his father-city." So that the preservation of one's community or organized society would seem to have been recognized as a good. This very