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BBHJAMIH PRAHKLIH
From: The Autobl o g r a p h y of
Benjamin Frank 1 1 n /1771/
It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without oonmitting any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or con^any might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I night not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had l^gin-ed. /ffhile my care was enqployed in guarding against one fault, I mkB often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of attention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at lezigth, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to^be completely virtuous was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any de- | pendenoe on a Qteady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method.
In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I fovind the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name, Teiq>eranoe, for ezainple, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating
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