Sometimes it means a natural or quasi-natural inclination to do some particular action, in which sense the word is applied to dumb animals.
And thus it is that in the works of irrational animals we notice certain marks of sagacity, in so far as they have a natural inclination to set about their actions in a most orderly manner through being ordained by the Supreme art.
Consequently it is contrary to the nature of the will's own act, that it should be subject to compulsion and violence: just as it is also contrary to the nature of a natural inclination or movement.
A natural inclination, simply because it is natural, is in the eyes of philosophy something highly respectable: it is the province of reason and free will not to allow it to go astray.
Now the right ends of human life are fixed; wherefore there can be a natural inclinationin respect of these ends; thus it has been stated above (I-II, Q.
Hence both sin and transgression may be against a laudable custom and against a natural inclination.
Had I had no natural inclination to the poor girl, compassion and contradiction would have produced it in me: I was always a great friend to decency in manners and conversation, especially in the fair sex.
After deliberating a long time on the bent of my natural inclination, they resolved to dispose of me in a manner the most repugnant to them.
In this way, then, it can have a natural inclination to evil; yet only accidentally, inasmuch as evil is connected with good.
To say that a natural inclination is not well regulated, is to derogate from the Author of nature.
According to their necessity for the primary or the secondary end of a natural inclination, the laws of nature are divided into primary and secondary.
Primary and secondary laws of nature are also explained as follows: (a) a primary law is one that expresses the principal purpose of a natural inclination (e.
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