The virtuousness of continence was not treated as a superstition by those who vindicated it as Turgot did, but discussed like any other virtue; and was defended not as an intuition of faith, but as a reasoned conclusion of the judgment.
Morley argues that continence was defended as a rational virtue rather than a mere superstition.
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