infirmity

that is natural can never be a crime — not even the inability to feel affection for an invisible God.

Recast in definition form from: “… case; and a natural infirmity can never be a crime. …”

is letting yourself be steered by things outside you, acting as the general run of things demands rather than as your own nature would.

Recast in definition form from: “true virtue is nothing else but living in accordance with reason; while infirmity is nothing else but man's allowing himself to be led by things which are external to himself, and to be by them determined to act in a manner demanded by the general disposition of things rather than by his own nature considered solely in itself.”

infirmity, n.Definitions

infirmity