Iacobi Acontii Tridentini de methodo, hoc est, de recta investigandarum, tradendarumque artium, ac scientiarum ratione

But the reasoning of goods, and therefore of ends, is undertaken in two ways. Sometimes we take them according to the condition of individual things which each has in its own genus, as a finished house is the ultimate end of the builder in his genus; sometimes, however, we take ends from the whole order of things, in which all things seem to be accommodated to the uses of one another. There can also be multiple ends for one thing in another way, such that one is of the work, another of the worker, another of the one who commands. Where there are several ends for the same thing, they will be either intermediate, and as it were looking one toward another, of which one is immediate and others are more remote: as if you say a bridle is prepared for the sake of governing a horse, but the horse for the sake of war, the war is waged for the sake of victory, the victory is sought so that you may enjoy tranquility. For we will understand that for him who prepares a bridle for himself, to govern the horse is the immediate end, but the others are more remote, namely these: war, victory, tranquility; but that tranquility is the ultimate and extreme end.