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432 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ANDand knowing, as well as of his willing.4 As thatwhich is properly human in the soul, that whichhas had a beginning, must also pass away, eventhe understanding, and only the divine reason isimmortal, and as memory belongs to the sensitivesoul, and individual thinking only takes place bymeans of the passive intellect, all consciousnessmust cease with death. And again, clearly asAristotle maintains that man is the mover andmaster of his own actions, and has it in his powerto be good or evil, and thence repudiates the assumptionof Socrates and Plato that no one iswillingly evil, yet he cannot find a place for realfreedom of the will between the motion which arisesfrom sensitive desire, and that which proceedsfrom the divine intelligence dwelling in the soul.Necessity "j arises on both sides, from the thingswhich determine the passive understanding, andfrom the divine intelligence.5 Thus his physicaltheory, as in the case of Plato noted above,6 preventsa clear conception of the human personality.His notion of man in this point corresponds to hisnotion of God: he does not concern himself withquestions respecting the goodness, justice, and freedomof God, inasmuch as his God is not reallypersonal :7 so with regard to man we find in himno elucidation as to the question of moral freedom,nor of the origin and nature of wickedness in man.4 Dollinger, p. 310, sec. 139. 5 Ibid. p. 311, sec. 140.6 See p. 411, above. 7 Dollinger, pp. 307 and 311.