Scientific phrenology : being a practical mental science and guide to human character / by Bernard Hollander.

  • Hollander, Bernard, 1864-1934.
Date:
1902
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    conform to all the customs of society, are stigmatised as reprobates. Watch how many people say, think, feel,- and do the same things in the same way day after day like so many automatic machines, and how very few have the impulse to get off the beaten track of thought and feeling in which all the others tread contentedly all their lives through. Will power is the capacity of being so powerfully attracted by one motive as that other motives dwindle into insignificance. Suppose a man capable of being strongly attracted by more than one motive ; should they pull him one way, and prove active through a large portion of his life, they make him seem only of stronger will ; but should their influence lie in opposite directions, no matter how strong each of them may prove, they will produce the semblance of an irresolute being. Small minds exhibit at times a will power that leads them on to success, for they are capable of being almost entirely absorbed by the one unchanging motive. Larger minds often fail of success by reason of a want of persistency in pursuit owing to the varied play of manifold motives, each capable of exerting a strong influence on a richly endowed nature. All individuals do not enjoy moral liberty to the like extent. We have seen that all motives are founded either in our own mental constitution or dependent on external circumstances. The more limited our innate powers are, the fewer motives will they furnish us to achieve good, or to avoid evil; and the more the intellectual