un-self-willed

Updated: May 19, 2025

Was there no one to answer for it? Surely there must be a heart-life somewhere in the universe, to whose will the un-self-willed life could refer for the justification of its existence, for its motive, for the idea of it that should make it seem right to itself to whom it could cry to have its divergence from that idea rectified!

George MacDonald - Paul Faber, Surgeon