Schopenhauer’s word will invoked no brilliant (lucid) idea in the mind. A bar of iron when heated expands; it is through will Schopenhauer would say. Yet it is hard to conceive what we call will as applied to a bar of iron. But when I say the bar expands on account of Power all is clear (¹) and will is, in a way, explained.

Suicide through self‑denial, through self‑sacrifice. Here is the secret of the hold which mankind’s heroes have on us.

(¹) Had it not the power to expand it had not expanded. Thus I draw near, in my view to the philosophic principle of intelligibility.