"The heart is wiser than the schools, the senses always reason well"

There is a great song by Tomas Arne called Air from Comus. The music is set to text written by John Milton. The poem reads: "Preach not me your musty rules, ye drowns that mould in idle cell. The heart is wiser than the schools. The senses always reason well." John Milton was an author alive during start of the age of enlightenment when all but empirical knowledge was being disregarded. When we studied Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics and particularly how the rational part of the soul (reason) and the irrational part (desire) must perfectly match up so that one might be virtuous, I was immediately reminded of this song. Aristotle would argue that John Milton's advice to follow the heart or desires instead of the senses or reason is bad advice. It is true that our desire will not always listen to our reason, but if we are well trained (according to Aristotle) at young age, what we want will most likely be what is reasonable to want.