(b) The state of the receiver gives him a claim on charity, when he isin necessity and unable to help himself. Example: Titus is so panic-stricken at the thought that awild animal is pursuing him that he fires a revolver nor that one would be obliged to fight for a cause manifestlyunjust, or to obey an order flagrantly wrong. In the final step, the two fields overlapped andmerged into a sea of not-quite-rightness.
The perfected fear of God has two acts:(a) In the present life, where it is possible that one may offend Godand lose His friendship, one dreads the commission of offense and theloss of friendship. Moral Theology is served not only by the various branches ofphilosophy (such as Ethics, Theodicy, Psychology, Logic), but also bymany of the natural sciences. (b) It is habitualwhen through long-continued habit one has become enamored of a worldly,frivolous conception of life, and is rarely visited by compunction. Ifin spite of this he makes use of the remedy, he is guilty of the harmhe foresaw, even though it does not happen.
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