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We will go there eventually, but let us see the Elders first \endashit's a logical step on the way. grees to taketoo much strong drink knowing from experience that this invariablyleads to serious excess. nd not according to his higher orrational nature, or loves himself egotistically to the hurt of others. (a) Thus, beneficencenaturally results from charity, since one of the acts of friendship isto do good to one's friend; (b) almsg

(b) Danger of material sin (see 249, 258) is thedanger that an act may be unlawful, not in the concrete or as to itsperformance, but in the abstract as to itself. Just as knowledgegrows as it becomes clearer and more certain, so does charity progressto higher degrees as it exists more firmly in its subject. The consequencethat these children afterwards live virtuously is not morallycreditable to Balbus, si 14; I John, iii.