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of going to church, has not the credit of those goodthoughts;(d) As regards consequences that were fores ontradiction that the act of the will was bothvoluntary, as proceeding from the will, and involuntary, as pro (b) When a supreme good of a private person is at stake, one shouldprefer to help him, even if a stranger, rather than another who is afriend, or relative, but who is not in the same distress. Examples: The natural lawthat one must save oneself from persecution and death yields to thenatural law that one must not blaspheme or deny God, and hence one mustprefer to die rather than blaspheme.

g sensitive emotion toawaken), or because the will has deliberately aroused the emotion inorder to be able the better to act through its cooperation. ening (ignoranceof the substance of the act); Balbus, a child, fires a pistol at hisplaymate, not knowing that this causes dea greater cause is required inthem, than in persons who have no such charge, for doing what will havean evil consequence. (b) Passive participation is had when one is present merely as aspectator, kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament, but giving no othersigns of religious devotion.