AI find by experience that there is quite a difference between the erratic impulses of the soul and a habit of resolute steadfastness. And I see very well that nothing is beyond our power: we can even, says someone,3 surpass the deity itself—inasmuch as it is a greater thing to make oneself impassible by one’s own efforts than to be so by one’s natural condition—even combine with man’s frailty a godlike resolution and assurance.
