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HEALTH THROUGH WILL POWER

BY

JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., Etc.

MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY;PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGYAT CATHEDRAL COLLEGE; LECTURER ON PSYCHOLOGY,MARYWOOD COLLEGE, ETC.


BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

1919


Copyright, 1919,
By Little, Brown, and Company.


All rights reserve

Published, November, 1919


Norwood Press

Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co.,

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.


To
J. H. W.

EX ANIMO ET CORDE

J. J. W.

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PREFACE

A French surgeon to whom the remark was made in the third year of theWar that France was losing an immense number of men replied: "Yes, weare losing enormously, but for every man that we lose we are makingtwo men." What he meant, of course, was that the War was bringing outthe latent powers of men to such an extent that every one of those whowere left now counted for two. The expression is much more than a merefigure of speech. It is quite literally true that a man who has hadthe profound experience of a war like this becomes capable of doingever so much more than he could before. He has discovered his ownpower. He has tapped layers of energy that he did not know hepossessed. Above all, he has learned that his will is capable ofenabling him to do things that he would have hesitated about andprobably thought quite impossible before this revelation of himself tohimself had been made.

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In a word, the War has proved a revival of appreciation of the placeof the human will in life. Marshal Foch, the greatest character of theWar, did not hesitate even to declare that "A battle is the struggleof two wills. It is never lost until defeat is accepted. They only arevanquished who confess themselves to be."

Our generation has been intent on the development of the intellect. Wehave been neglecting the will. "Shell shock" experiences have shown usthat the intellect is largely the source of unfavorable suggestion.The will is the controlling factor in the disease. Many anotherdemonstration of the power of will has been furnished by the War. Thisvolume is meant to help in the restoration of the will to its place asthe supreme faculty in life, above all the one on whose exercise, morethan any other single factor, depends health and recovery fromdisease. The time seems opportune for its appearance and it iscommended to the attention of those who have recognized how much themodern cult of intellect left man unprepared for the ruder trails oflife yet could not see clearly what the remedy might be.

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CONTENTS