sets, but shines on unceasingly.

The problem of the freedom of the will is solved by the considerations
which have been thus outlined. Since the will is not phenomenon, is not
idea or object, but thing-in-itself, is not determined as a consequent
through any reason, and knows no necessity, therefore it is _free_. But
the person is never free, although he is the phenomenon of a free will,
for this indisputable reason, that he is already the determined
phenomenon of the free volition of this will, and is constrained to
embody the direction of that volition in a multiplicity of actions.

Repentance never results from a change of will, for this is impossible,
but from a change of knowledge. The essential in what I have willed I
must continue to will, for I am identical with this will which lies
outside time and change. Therefore I cannot repent of what I have
willed, though I can repent of what I have done; because, constrained by
false notions, I was led to do what did not accord with my will.
Repentance is simply the discovery of this fuller and more correct
knowledge.

SENECA

On Benefits

The more famous son of a famous rhetorician, the Roman philosopher
L. Annaeus Seneca was born at Corduba (Cordova), in Spain, about the
beginning of the Christian era. While the date of his birth is a
matter for conjecture, the circumstances of his death are
notorious. He was a victim of Nero's jealousy and ingratitude in 65
A.D., when the emperor seized upon a plot against himself as the
pretext for sentencing Seneca to enforced suicide. In the vivid
pages of the historian Tacitus, there are few more pathetic
descriptions than that recounting the slow ebbing of the old
philosopher's life after his veins had been opened. Seneca had
known many vicissitudes of fortune. He was banished from Rome in 41
A.D., but, after his recall, rose to great power and affluence as
tutor and adviser to Nero. His works, many of which are lost,
include tragedies, letters, and treatises on philosophy. The high
ethical standard maintained by Seneca favoured the legend that he
was influenced by the Apostle Paul, and a spurious correspondence
between them was long accepted as genuine. Of the moral works there
is, for insight into human nature and for generosity of impulse, no
better representative than that "On Benefits."

_I.--Benefits are to be Best