The End of a Man, or the Sumum Bonum

All that I consist of is either form or matter. No corruption can reduce either of these unto nothing, for neither did I of nothing become a subsistent creature. Every part of mine then will by mutation be disposed into a certain part of the whole world, and that in time into another part, and so in infinitum. The final ends and consummations of actions are nothing at all to a man's nature. Nothing must be thought to belong to a man, which does not belong unto him as he is a man. Reason and rational power are faculties which content themselves with themselves and their own proper operations. Their progress is right to the end and object, which is in their