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Intelligence

Excerpt from The Aristos (1964) by John Fowles. Taken from the section titled Inability to enact good

18 The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.

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