E-text prepared by Ruth Hart
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| Transcriber's note: | In the Introduction, I have changed "yet is is a very literal truth" to "yet it is a very literal truth". Also in the Introduction, I changed the spelling of "faculities" to "faculties" (other spelling remains unchanged). Finally, while most of the proper names are capitalized, not all of them are, and I have left the uncapitalized names as they appeared in the original. |
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE.
This wonderful treatise was first published in England several years ago,under the title of "Have You a Strong Will?" and has run throughseveral editions there. In its original form, it was printed in quite largetype, double-leaded, and upon paper which "bulked out" the book to quite a thickvolume. Some copies have been sold in America, but the price which dealers werecompelled to charge for it, in its original shape, prevented the widecirculation that it merited, and which its author undoubtedly desired for it,for it seems to have been a labor of love with him, the interest of the race inhis wonderful theories evidently being placed above financial returns by Mr.Leland. Believing that the author's ideas and wishes would be well carried outby the publication of an American edition printed in the usual size type(without the expedient of "double-leading" unusually large type in order to makea large volume), which allows of the book being sold at a price within the reachof all, the publisher has issued this edition along the lines indicated.
The present edition is identical with the original English edition with thefollowing exceptions:
(1) There has been omitted from this edition a long, tiresome chaptercontained in the original edition, entitled "On the Power of the Mind to masterdisordered Feelings by sheer Determination. As Set forth by Immanuel Kant in aletter to Hufeland," but which chapter had very little to say about "the powerof the mind," but very much indeed about Hygiene, Dietetics, Sleep, Care ofOneself in Old Age, Hypochondria, Work, Exercise, Eating and Drinking, Illness,etc., etc., from the point of view of the aged German metaphysician, which whileinteresting enough in itself, and to some people, was manifestly out of place ina book treating upon the development of Mental Faculties by the Will, etc. Wethink that Mr. Leland's admirers will find no fault with this omission.
(2) The word "Suggestion" has been substituted for the word "Hypnotism" inseveral places in the original text, where