Your Will Power, Also Called The Mystic Will: Or How To Develop And Strengthen Will Power, Memory, Or Any Other Faculty Or Attribute Of The Mind (1918)
Your Will Power, Also Called The Mystic Will: Or How To Develop And Strengthen Will Power, Memory, Or Any Other Faculty Or Attribute Of The Mind (1918)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...earnest longing or appetite, an ardent wish--alicujus rei cupiditatem a desiderium alicui movere--to bring into action a man's hankering, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, ardour, predilection, love, fondness and relish, or aught which savours of Willing." Our English word, Inveigle, is derived from it, but we ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...earnest longing or appetite, an ardent wish--alicujus rei cupiditatem a desiderium alicui movere--to bring into action a man's hankering, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, ardour, predilection, love, fondness and relish, or aught which savours of Willing." Our English word, Inveigle, is derived from it, but we have none precisely corresponding to it which so generally sets forth the idea of inspiring a will in another person. " Suggestion" is far more general and vague. Now if a man could thus inwill himself to good or moral purpose, he would assume a new position in life. We all admit that most human beings have defects or faults of which they would gladly be freed (however incorrigible they appear to be), but they have not the patience to effect a cure, to keep to the resolve, or prevent it from fading out of sight. For a vast proportion of all minor sins, or those within the law, there is no cure sought. The offender says and believes, "It is too strong for me"--and yet these small unpunished offences cause a thousand times more suffering than all the great crimes. Within a generation, owing to the great increase of population, prosperity and personal comfort, nervous susceptibility has also gained in extent, but there has been no check to petty abuse of power, selfishness, which always comes out in some form of injustice or wrong, or similar vexations. Nay, what with the disproportionate growth of vulgar wealth, this element has rapidly increased, and it would really seem as if the plague must spread ad infinitum, unless some means can be found to invogliare and inspire the offenders with a sense of their sins, and move them to reform. And it is more than probable that, if all who are at heart sincerely willing to reform their morals and manners...
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