llect. Hence life is quite
sufficiently divided into the active and the contemplative.

But some argue that this division is not a sufficient one, thus:

1. The Philosopher[303] says that there are three specially excellent
kinds of life: the pleasurable, the civil--which seems to be identified
with the active--and the contemplative.

But the pleasurable life makes its end consist in the pleasures
of that body which we have in common with the brute creation.
Hence, as the Philosopher says in the same place, this is a
bestial life. Consequently it is not comprised in our division
of life into the active and the contemplative.

2. Again, S. Augustine[304] speaks of three different kinds of life: the
life of leisure, which is referred to the contemplative; the busy life,
which is referred to the active life; and he adds a third composed of
these two.

But things which hold a middle course are compounded of the
extremes, and hence are virtually contained in them, as the
tepid in the hot and the cold, the pallid in the white and the
black. And similarly, under the active and the contemplative
lives is comprised that kind of life which is compounded of them
both. But just as in every mixture one of the simple elements
predominates, so in this mixed kind of life now the
contemplative, now the active predominates.

3. Lastly, men's lives are diversified according to their various
occupations. But there are more than two classes of human occupations.

But all classes of human occupations are, if they are concerned
with the necessities of this present life, and in accordance
with right reason, comprised under the active life which, by
properly regulated acts, takes heed for the needs of the present
life. But if these actions minister to our concupiscences, then
they fall under the voluptuous life which is not comprised in
the active life. But human occupations which are directed to the
consideration of the truth are comprised under the contemplative
life.

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_S. Augustine: Your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ shall
appear, Who is your life, then you also shall appear with Him in
glory_;[305] but until that shall come to pass _we see now through a
glass in a dark manner_--that is, in images as it were--_but then face
to face_.[306] This, indeed, is the contemplation that is promised