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The Bonham Chivile Is the Good of Achieved Virtue
St. Thomas does indeed say that for the Christian only infused virtue is true and perfect virtue. But this will not accord perhaps I should say it is very difficult to see how this can accord with St. Thomas's texts. In some places he will speak of the two sets of virtues acquired and infused as being relative to a twofold ultimate end of man seeming almost to undo the principle from which we started. The Bonham Chivile, the civil good, is not the ultimate end of the infused cardinal virtues of which we are now speaking but of the acquired virtues of which the philosophers spoke. Indicating that the Chivile or the Polbe's, the city is the formality