Step by step Science has advanced of late to the declaration that man thinks all over his body, or at least experiences those reflected sensations or emotions which are so strangely balanced between intellectual sense and sensation that we hardly know where or how to class them.  “The sensitive plexi of our whole organism are all either isolated or thrown into simultaneous vibration when acted on by Thought.”  So the Will may be found acting unconsciously as an emotion or instinct, or developed with the highest forms of conscious reflection.  Last of all we find it, probably as the result of all associated functions or powers, at the head of all, their Executive president.  But is it “the exponent of correlated forces?” There indeed doctors differ.

There is a very curious Italian verb, Invogliare, which is thus described in a Dictionary of Idioms:  “Invogliare is to inspire a will or desire, cupiditatem injicere a movere.  To invogliare anyone is to awake in him the will or the ability or capacity, an earnest longing or appetite, an ardent wish—­alicujus rei cupiditatem a desiderium alicni movere—­to bring into action a man’s hankering, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, ardor, predilection, love, fondness and relish, or aught which savors 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 in-will 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 offenses 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 could be brought to keep their delinquencies before their consciousness in the very