moment. If at times the will can ride over circumstance, there are respects in which nothing in nature can be ignored. If with the radical individualist I undertake to be wholly independent of my fellows, I shall be compelled to learn the lesson of dependence at every turn. The theologians are usually ready to confirm this insignificance of the will, assuring us that all efficiency is vested in God, from whom comes not only the power but the grace that saves. Indeed, if we could believe a certain school of theologians, we should be compelled to say that the possession of even a slight will of our own is the prime trouble with us. Some appear eager to deprive us even of this, insisting that every knee shall bow in acknowledgment of authority. And if we do not then feel the force of our littleness, there is a school of moralists ready to show that the possession of freedom is by no means creditable, since real freedom consists, not in doing what we wish, but in complete obedience to the law of righteousness. To be free, we are further assured, is not to create the alternatives of our moral consciousness, for these are supplied by experience; what we are free to do is simply to drop back in the scale, ceasing for the time to be persons. Hence the highest spiritual example voices itself in the prayer, "Not my will but thine be done," and always qualifies any request by adding, "nevertheless, if it be thy