意誌。
Mao's emergence proved that the Will of the Chinese nation was not dead, and it was the same will in common people that responded to the hero. In such case the hero isn't isolated.
In some other cases, the hero can be isolated such as some past sages and creators in a variety of important disciplines. Such heroes are often not responded but only recognized partially by few. This is because they were created by a higher will in form of true genius of the most precious kind. 但時勢將毀不掉他們.