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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Compulsion

Force is the agent which ignorance uses for making his followers do the actions to which they are disinclined by nature; and (like an attempt to make water ascend above its level) the moment the agent ceases to act, the same instant does the operation cease.

Combe.