A requirement for one who would lead is some who would follow.
Because the effort to define one word requires a full understanding of the words used in that effort, we must be sure we understand what it means to follow.
One cannot follow while being compelled. If someone is not acting of their own will when they are thought to follow, they are merely conscripted.
A leader, then, is one whose endeavors create like desires in others.
Because followers can only be so voluntarily, a leader does not compel others
in any way. When one who would lead uses
any form of coercion to compel particular behaviors, he is a tyrant, a user of
people to accomplish his own ease and to fulfill his preferred lusts, whatever
they may be.
