QUALITIES ADMIT OF DEGREE.

Does a quality admit of more or less?[410] Evidently the objects which

participate in qualities participate therein more or less. But the

chief question is whether there be degrees in virtue or justice? If

these habits possess a certain latitude, they have degrees. If they

have no latitude, they are not susceptible of more or less.

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