FOURTH BOOK: THE WORLD AS WILL004
"Optimus ille animi vindex l?dentia pectus,
Vincula qui rupit, dedoluitque semel."[pg 397]
So much with regard to the acquired character, which, indeed, is not of so much importance for ethics proper as for life in the world. But its investigation was related as that of a third species to the investigation of the intelligible and the empirical character, in regard to which we were obliged to enter upon a somewhat detailed inquiry in order to bring out clearly how in all its phenomena the will is subject to necessity, while yet in itself it may be called free and even omnipotent.