These further developments are voluntary (3.1.2–4). The operations of the imagination and the governing faculty are described as follows: But if someone maintains that what comes from outside is irresistible when it has happened, let him turn his atte ntion to his own passions and movements and see whether there is not an approval, and assent, and inclination of the governing faculty to that thing on account of these incentives. For example, if seeing a woman has incited a man to act contrary to his purpose to be continent and restrain himself from sex, the woman is not the perfect cause of annulling his determination, for he commits the licentious act after wholly approving the titillation and the smoothness of the pleasure without wishing to resist it or to adhere to his decision. Another man in the same circumstances, with more knowledge and practice, also encounters titillations and incitements, but his reason, as being better strengthened and nourished by practice and confirmed by doctrine towards the good, or being near to confirmation, repels the incite- ments and weakens the appetite. (3.1.4 (198.12–199.11)