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1908 Nov. 18.
Logic
I.i. 5

Everybody knows that persons are able to exercize some considera-
ble control overt their habits. Later we shall have occasion to consider
in some measure the modus operandi of this control. At present, we
need only note that a review, or reminiscential repetition, of one's conduct upon
a given occasion often excites a feeling of repulsion, and that this
leads him to imagine behaviour governed by other general ideas, and
finally he will imagine a line of conduct, or controlled behaviour, on
the given occasion which excites a more intense feeling of attrac-
tion than any other that occurs to him; and
behaviour governed by the same general idea as the behaviour that
is most attractive to him will be copied in imagination in more or
less varied forms all governed by the same general idea. Now, it is
an important law of the soul that repeated performances governed by one