so also with the soul. Every faculty of the soul—when brought into activity is improved and strengthened; but when left inactive, grows weaker, and wastes away. What, for instance, is there by nature more lively and more ready to make itself heard than our conscience? Yet, if we neither exercise nor guard it, its workings within us are hindered; its voice gradually ceases to be heard inwardly; at last it slumbers and sleeps, and man is left without a conscience. But there are other spiritual faculties