All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly
fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is
possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle.
I say
this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but
because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be dutiful. If you wish to
know what men will do, you must know not only, or principally, their material
circumstances, but rather the whole system of their desires with their relative
strengths.
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