When I took hold of the stem to wind it I noticed that there was no tension. I walked into the office of a nearby jeweler and he immediately confirmed my own diagnosis of the trouble. The mainspring was broken. Now a watch is like a human being in some respects. Both receive their motive power from within.
Man is a creature of motivation.
He is subject to drives, desires and ambitions. Some of these are worthy, some are not. And because man is also a creature of will he can surrender to these or subjugate them. The Bible is the history of God's dealings with man, so it runs the whole gamut of behavioral patterns and the motivations for them. There was the case of the young woman who was seduced by a man in an upper social bracket while she was visiting some of her girl friends.