These substances are scattered throughout nature.

In their free state, they surround and enter into us, they determine our will, they circumscribe our freedom of device, which is merely the illusion engendered within us by the ignorance of our determinations." "What on earth do you mean ?" asked Pradel, taken aback.
"I mean that our will is an illusion caused by our ignorance of the causes which compel us to exert our will.

That which wills within us is not ourselves, but myriads of cells of prodigious activity, of which we know nothing, which are unaware of us, which are ignorant of one another, but which nevertheless constitute us.

By means of their restlessness they produce innumerable currents which we call our passions, our thoughts, our joys, our sufferings, our desires, our fears, and our will.

We believe that we are our own masters, while a mere drop of alcohol stimulates, and then benumbs the very elements by which we feel and will." Constantin Marc interrupted the physician: "Excuse me! Since you are speaking of the action of alcohol, I should like your advice on the subject.