all-round examination of Ideas that we acquire valuable knowledge, and
may learn how very few there are current which are more than very
superficially understood--as I have shown in what I have said of the
Will, the Imagination, Forethought, and many other faculties which are
flippantly used to explain a thousand problems by people who can
hardly define the things themselves.



CHAPTER V.

WILL AND CHARACTER.

"And I have felt
A Presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts, a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interposed,
Whose dwelling is . . . all in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit that impels
All thinking things."--_Wordsworth_.

As the vast majority of people are not agreed as to what really
constitutes a Gentleman, while a great many seem to be practically, at
least, very much abroad as to the nature of a Christian, so it will be
found that, in fact, there is a great deal of difference as regards
the Will. I have known many men, and some women, to be credited by
others, and who very much credited themselves, with having iron wills,
when, in fact, their every deed, which was supposed to prove it, was
based on brazen want of conscience. Mere want of principle or
unscrupulousness passes with many, especially its possessors, for