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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the / action of reason and imagination, rarely or never.
Motives imply weakness, and the existence of evil and temptation. The / angelic nature would act from impulse alone. A due mean of motive and / impulse is the only practicable object of our moral philosophy.