The command was not above his head as a rod, but within his heart as a natural instinct.
And now the law is not a rod above his head, as above a slave, but it is turned into a law of love within his heart and hath something like a natural instinct in it.
As a fish, by natural instinct, avoids foul and unwholesome water, so a Christian has spiritual powers to judge of the purity of doctrine.
Such knowledge is in irrational animals: whose appetitive powers do not command with freedom, but are moved according to a natural instinct to whatever they apprehend.
And in this way, irrational animals intend an end, inasmuch as they are moved to something by natural instinct.
The senses do not apprehend the future: but from apprehending the present, an animal is moved by natural instinct to hope for a future good, or to fear a future evil.
All our powers may however be reduced to four heads; natural instinct, internal perception, external sensation, and reason.
Hence other animals, that are moved to act by natural instinct, are not said to be moved by free-will.
But because this judgment, in the case of some particular act, is not from a natural instinct, but from some act of comparison in the reason, therefore he acts from free judgment and retains the power of being inclined to various things.
I answer that, We have free-will with respect to what we will not of necessity, nor by natural instinct.
For our will to be happy does not appertain to free-will, but to natural instinct.
How is it that we have no natural instinct for death?
Metchnikoff supposes that this lack of harmony in our nature comes from the fact that death is as premature as senility and arrives before the natural instinct for it has had time to develop.
He saw in it one of the most important disharmonies of human nature, because of the fact that neither senility nor death is accompanied by a natural instinct.
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