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272 Scholastic Doctrine CHAP. x.
mode of carrying it out, produced such a labyrinth of
compartments and network of verbal subtleties, that it
requires some patience in a reader to extricate any mean
ing at all from such confusion, or arrive at the substance
and kernel of the system, amidst such obstructions.
Aquinas then commences with laying down, in general
terms, the doctrine of infused habits, a doctrine which,
as I have explained in a preceding chapter, is
natural one, and agreeable to our experience.
in itself a
He asserts,
in the first place, that there are such things as natural
habits 1
, or dispositions, moral and intellectual, which are
born with men ; though he artificially limits the former to
such as are evidently connected with the bodily tempera
ment, such as temperance. And upon this foundation of
natural truth, he proceeds to erect another, and a more
important class of infused habits, connected with grace.
Besides habits infused by nature, then, there were
habits infused by Grod ; which differed from the natural
virtues in this, that they were designed for the spiritual
good of man, as the former were for his temporal and
worldly. These were certain imparted holy dispositions,
or spiritual virtues, produced in the soul without any efforts
of its own quas Deus in nobis sine nobis operatur.*
ad castitatem vel man-
divinse : secundo ratione special! complexione
propter conditionem status humanae suetudinem, vel ad aliquid hujusnaturse
; quae quidem licet per gra- modi. l ma 2 dfte
tiani sanetur quantum ad mentem,
remanet, tamen in eo corruptio et duntur. . . . Ratio
Q. 51. A. 1.
2 Habitus homini a Deo infun-
est quia aliqui
infectio quantum ad carnem . . . et habitus sunt quibus homo bene disideo
necesse est nobis ut a Deo ponitur ad finem excedentem faculdirigarnur
et protegamur, quia omnia tatem humanae naturae, . . . et quia
movet et omnia . . . potest. Donum
habitus oportet esse proportionates
habitualis graticB non ad hoc datur ei ad quod homo disponitur secunnobis
ut per ipsum non indigeamus dum ipsos, ideo necesse est quod
ulterius divino auxilio? l ma 2 Iae Q. etiam habitus ad hujusmodi finem
110. A. 9. disponentes, excedant facultatem
1 Sunt in hominibus aliqui habi- humanae naturae. Unde tales habi
tus naturales. ... In appetitivis tus nunquam possunt homini inesse,
autem polentiis non est aliquis habi- nisi ex infusione divina. Though
tusnaturalissecunduminchoationem God is also able to infuse common
ex parte ipsius animae. . . Sed ex habits, such as are ordinarily ac-
parte corporis . . . sunt enim qui- quired by acts. Deus potest prodam
dispositi ex propria corporis ducere effectus causarum secundarum