Mere want of principle or unscrupulousness passes with many, especially its possessors, for strong _will_.

And even decision of character itself, as MAGINN remarks, is often confounded with talent.

"A bold woman always gets the name of clever"-- among fools--"though her intellect may be of a humble order, and her knowledge contemptible." Among the vulgar, especially those of greedy, griping race and blood, the children of the thief, a robber of the widow and orphan, the scamp of the syndicate, and soulless "promoter" in South or North America, bold robbery, or Selfishness without scruple or timidity always appears as Will.

But it is not the whole of the real thing, or real will in itself.

When MUTIUS CAIUS SCAEVOLA thrust his hand into the flames no one would have greatly admired his endurance if it had been found that the hand was naturally insensible and felt no pain.