These folk get an immense amount of undeserved admiration as having Will or self-command, when they owe what staying quality they have (like the preceding class) rather to a lack of good qualities than their inspiration.
There are, alas! not a few who regard _Will_ as simply identical with mere obstinacy, or stubbornness, the immovability of the Ass, or Bull, or Bear--that is, they reduce it to an animal power.

But, as this often or generally amounts in animal or man to mere insensible sulkiness--as far remote as possible from enlightened mental action, it is surely unjust to couple it with the _Voluntary_ or pure intelligent _Will_, by which all must understand the very acme of active Intellect.
Therefore it follows, that the errors, mistakes, and perversions which have grown about Will in popular opinion, like those which have accumulated round Christianity, are too often mistaken for the truth.
Pure Will is, and must be by its very nature, perfectly _free_, for the more it is hindered, or hampered, or controlled in any way, the less is it independent volition.

Therefore, pare Will, free from all restraint can only act in, or as, Moral Law.

Acting in accordance with very mean, immoral, obstinate motives is, so to speak, obeying as a slave the devil.

The purer the motive the purer the Will, and in very truth the purer the stronger, or firmer.