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Now some thinkers hold that virtue is a gift of nature; others think we become good by
habit, others that we can be taught to be good. Natural endowment is obviously not under
our control; it is bestowed on those who are fortunate, in the true sense, by some divine
dispensation. Again, theory and teaching are not, I fear, equally efficacious in all
cases: the soil must have been previously tilled if it is to foster the seed, the mind of
the pupil must have been prepared by the cultivation of habits, so as to like and dislike
aright.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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