The mind has greater control over the emotions whenever:
a. the mind understands all things to be necessary.
b. the mind determines that all things spring from a chain of causes.
c. the mind rejects any pleasures whatsoever.
d. "the mind understands all things to be necessary" and "the mind rejects anypleasures whatsoever."
e. "the mind understands all things to be necessary" and "the mind determinesthat all things spring from a chain of causes."
e
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