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318 subdued another may arise and strive for the mastery, so appetite may well be opposed to appetite. But resistance to desire can be manifested only in such beings as have a sense of time, have, that is, powers of abstraction, by which, withdrawing themselves from what is present, and foreseeing consequences in the future, they are enabled to resist the immediate compliance which desire or passion is urging upon them. For "the portion of time now present, is a portion of that which is future and indivisible."

Note 4, p. 179. For without having been itself moved, &c.] Owing to the wording there is obscurity about this passage, but yet it may be elucidated—the object desired, food, that is, although at rest, may, acting upon the appetitive sense, incite to move, and so be regarded as a motor; and there are, of course, as many such motors as there are kinds of food. These then are the three terms—first, the motor or food; then the muscular agency by which locomotion is effected; and lastly, that which is moved, or the animal.

Note 5, p. 180. But to speak summarily, &c.] The passage has, in this version, been rendered with a bias that the analogy was drawn from the structure of the knee-joint, which, in all times, has been likened to a hinge, and hence termed " ginglymoid;" and conchologists, following Aristotle, have so termed the hinge of