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2^12 THE DOCTEINB OP ORIGINAL SIN.
of single choices which covers but a aiog-le point on the
surface, and never goes below the surface ? — Would notj
a faculty comprehensive enough to include the whol^
man, and sufficiently deep and central to be the origin^
and basis of a nature, a character, a permanevi moral
state, be a very different faculty from that volitionaiy
power whose activity is merely on the surface, and whose
products are single resolutions, ajid transient volitions ?

Now, by the Will, we mean such a faculty. We
mean by it a voluntary power that lies at the very
foundation of the humaii soul, constitnting its central,
active principle, containing the whole moral state, and
all the moral affections. We mean by it a voluntary
power that cames the toJiole inward being along with it
when it moves ; a power, in short, which is the man
himself— the ego, the person.
