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On obedience to Order. Means of acquiring a stable and dominant disposition to obey it. This cannot be done without grace. How much the good use of the mind’s strength and freedom contributes to grace: by the light which that usage generates in us, by the contempt it teaches us for our passions, and by the purity it re-establishes and conserves in our imagination.
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Malebranche, N. (1993). Chapter Seven. In: Treatise on Ethics (1684). International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées, vol 133. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2480-5_8
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