We must not imagine as do certain daring minds whom thedominance of the passions has reduced to the condition of beasts and who, having despised the Law of God for so long, seem basically to know nothing but their own vile passions we must not, I say, imagine as do these men of flesh and blood that to follow God and to obey the voice of the Author of nature is to follow the impulses of these passions and to obey the secret desire of our heart.