Character has distinct objective and subjective sides (SW II: 90–1).  Objectively, character depends on the child’s susceptibility to formation and its individuality. Although the child is not born with “a” character (which term is reserved for settled traits), yet he is born with certain dispositions, including a “disposition to stability of character” (SW II: 91). This manifests itself in what Herbart calls the will’s “memory”, i.e., the fact that under like stimuli, the will will will like actions (SW II: 91–2). In this respect, there seems to be something predictable, hence “objective” in human character. Although this stability is but relative, and one spontaneously finds himself choosing or forsaking, avoiding this or pursuing that, yet