It will not be quite sufficient as regards controlling the temper to merely will, or _wish_ to subdue it.

We must also will that when the temptation arises it may be preceded by forethought or followed by regret.

As it often happens to a young soldier to be frightened or run away the first time he is under fire, and yet learn courage in the future, so the aspirant resolved to master his passions must not doubt because he finds that the first step slips.

_Apropos_ of which I would note that in all the books on Hypnotism that I have read their authors testify to a certain false quantity or amount of base alloy in the most thoroughly suggested patients.

Something of modesty, something of a moral conscience always remains.