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 —Emotion; he determines to go across and speak to him—Will."

If the Christian Science position were true, the whole sequence of mind development as we actually know it, would be absolutely reversed, which is contrary to the facts—and therefore absurd. A person, in order to experience each sensation, would have to exert will in order to do so; and no sensation could be received without the exertion of the will. Our own knowledge will tell us how silly is such a notion; for many sensations come to us aside from our own volition; as, for instance, the heat and cold that are due to the weather; the painful feelings we possess through the unkindness of our fellow men; the comfort or discomfort that is present on account of our surroundings; the pain of diseases which ensue from the presence of some specific germ which causes irritation in the tissues; and so on.

While the Will, the conscious and sub-conscious Mind, may do much to call up or to banish the ideas and emotions resultant from sensations, or combinations of sensations, already once felt, they cannot, in the beginning, produce these primary feelings. And, while the Will and the conscious and sub-conscious