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actions, and I fancy it is too late to control what is happening at the very instant present.
You cannot prevent what already is.
If this be true, it is true than when we act, we do act under a necessity that we cannot control.
But our future actions we can determine in a great measure; can we not?
To deny that were mere gabble and word-twisting.
No matter how bad the argument may be that we can only control future actions by a present action which is itself necessitated still it would be idle to find fault with it, since it is quite irrelevant.
The point is that our future actions will be controlled by present endeavors.
That is sufficient.
But let us describe the all familiar phenomena of self-control.

In the first place, then, every man has certain ideals of the general description of conduct that befits a rational animal in his particular station in like what most accords with his total nature and relations on