And what sayest thou, Achilles, Doth it not please thee that what is fair and right should be done? ——“Of all things this doth most please me.” Then make application of your natural conceptions. Whence arose this dispute? The one saith: _I am not bound to deliver up Chryseis to her father._ And the other saith: _Thou art bound._ Assuredly one of them must ill apply the conception of duty. And again the one saith: _Therefore if I should deliver up Chryseis, it is meet that I take his prize from one of you._ And the other: _Wouldst thou, then, take from me my beloved?_ He saith: _Yea, even thine._ And _shall I alone, and I alone, have nothing_? And thus ariseth the contradiction. 2. What is it, then, to be educated? It is to learn to apply the natural conceptions to each thing severally according to nature; and further, to discern that of things that exist some are in our own power[1] and the rest are not in our own power. And things that are in our own power are the will, and all the works of the will. And things that are not in our own power are the body, and the parts of the body, and possessions and parents and brethren and children and country and, in a word, our associates. Where now shall we place the Good? To what objects shall we apply it? To those which are in our own power? Then is health not good, and whole limbs and life? and are not children and parents and country? And who will bear with you if you say this? Let us, then, transfer it to these things. Now, can one be happy who is injured, and has missed gaining what is good? He cannot. And can such a one bear himself towards his fellows as he ought? How is it possible that he should? For I have it of nature that I must seek my own profit. If it profits me to own a piece of land, it profits me to take it from my neighbor. If it profits me to have a garment, it profits me to steal it from the bath. And hence wars, seditions, tyrannies, conspiracies. And how shall I be able to maintain a right mind towards God? for if I suffer injury and misfortune, it cannot be but He neglects me. And what have I to do with Him if He cannot help me? And, again, what have I to do with Him if He is willing to let me continue in the evils in which I am? Henceforth I begin to hate Him. Why, then, do we build temples and set up statues to Zeus as we do to powers of evil, such as Fever?[2] And how is He now the Saviour and the Raingiver and the Fruitgiver? And verily, all this follows, if we place anywhere in external things the nature and being of the Good. CHAPTER III. THE MASTER-FACULTY.