Montaigne keeps, of course, his sceptical tone, but he practically agrees with the venerable authorities above quoted, when he says: Serait-il vrai, que pour �tre bon tout � fait, il nous le faille �tre par occulte, naturelle et universelle propri�t�, sans lot, sans raison, sans exemple? — (Liv. II., chap. 11.) Lichtenberg hits the mark exactly in his Vermischte Schriften, (v.

Moralische Bemerkungen). He writes: “All virtue arising from premeditation is not worth much. What is wanted is feeling or habit.” Lastly, it should be noted that Christianity itself, in its original teaching, recognises, and bears witness to this inherent, immutable difference between character and character. In the Sermon on the Mount we find the allegory of the fruit which is determined by the nature of the tree