This conversation also took place in the open air, on the little island in the shooting Rhone where Jean-Jacques has a monument.

"The will, I believe, is the mystery of mysteries.

Who can answer for his will?
who can say beforehand that it 's strong?
There are all kinds of indefinable currents moving to and fro between one's will and one's inclinations.

People talk as if the two things were essentially distinct; on different sides of one's organism, like the heart and the liver.

Mine, I know, are much nearer together.