κεῖσθαι (_capillorum cirros incomposite jungens, sine utut volunt jacere_).[279] In German, Bürger says: "_hinab_ will _der Bach, nicht hinan_" (the brook _will_ go downwards not upwards). In daily life we constantly hear: "the water boils, it _will_ run over,"--"the glass _will_ break,"--"the ladder _will_ not stand;"--"_le feu ne_ veut _pas brûler_."--"_la corde, une fois tordue_, veut _toujours se retordre_."--In English, the verb '_to will_' is even the auxiliary of the future of all the other verbs, thus expressing the notion, that there lies a will at the bottom of every action. In English moreover, the endeavours of all inanimate and unconscious things, are expressly designated by the word _want_, which denotes every sort of human desire or endeavour: "the water _wants_ to get out,"--"the steam _wants_ to find an issue."--In Italian too we have "vuol _piovere_;" "_quest' orologio non_ vuol _andare_."--The conception of willing is besides so deeply rooted in this last language, that it seems to indicate everything that is requisite or necessary: "_ci_ vuol _un contrappeso_;" "_ci_ vuol _pazienza_." [274] _Ibid._ "Quæst. nat." ii. 24. [275] Plin. "Hist. nat." 37, 15. [276] Aristot. "De Cœlo." ii. c. 13, "If a small particle of earth is lifted and let loose, it is carried away and will not rest." [Tr.'s add.] [277] _Ibid._ c. 14, "But each thing ought to be named as it wills to be and really is according to its nature, not as it is by force and contrary to its nature." [Tr.'s add.] [278] Arist. "Eth. Mag." i. c. 14. [279] "Let the freely curling locks fall unarranged as they _will_ [_like_]." [Tr.'s add.] A very striking instance of this is to be found even in Chinese--a language which differs fundamentally from all those belonging to the Sanskrit family--it is in the commentary to the Y-King,[280] accurately rendered by Peter Regis as follows: "_Yang, seu materia cœlestis_, vult _rursus ingredi, vel_ (_ut verbis doctoris Tsching-tse utar_) vult _rursus esse in superiore loco; scilicet illius naturæ ratio ita fert, seu innata lex_." [280] "Y-King," ed. J. Mohl, vol. i. p. 341.