PREFACE TO THE FIRST k EDITION"What is so admirable is that they recognize the need of a master and of instruction in all other affairs-and study them with some care. It is only the science of life which they do not study at all, and which they do not desire to comprehend."Nicole-"Treatise on the Necessity of Not Trusting to Chance."In the seventeenth century and during a part of the eighteenth, religion held supreme sway over the mind: the problem of the education of the will could not present itself in all its generalities. The forces wielded by the Catholic Church, that incomparable mistress of character, were sufficient to regulate along its broader lines the life of the believer. But to-day this instruction has been eliminated by the majority of thinking men, and it has never been replaced. Newspapers, re-[vii]Table of Contents CONTENTS; Ðèäå; Preface to the first editionvii; Preface to tne second editionxiv; Preface to the twenty-seventh edition xxi; THEORETICAL SECTION; BOOK I-PRELIMINARIES; I The Evils to be Overcome 3; II The Aim to Pursue 23; 1Ï Discouraging and False Theories Concerning; the Education of the Will 30; BOOK II-THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE WILL; I A Study of the Role that Ideas Play in the; Will53; II The Role of the Emotional States in the Will 70 III The Kingdom of Intelligence100; BOOK III-THE INTERNAL MEASURES; I The Part of Meditative Reflection in the Education of the Will141; II What Meditation Means and How to Meditate 198 III The Role of Action in the Education of the; Will208; [v]; CONTENTS; Page; IV Bodily Hygiene, Considered from the Point of View of the Student's Education of His; Will247; V A General Glance289; PRACTICAL SECTION; BOOK IV-PRIVATE MEDITATIONS; I The Enemies to Combat: Sentimental Day-; Dreams and Sensuality295; II Enemies to Combat: Companions, Acquaintances, etc344; III Enemies to Combat: Sophisms of the Indolent 355; IV