Excerpt from Body and Will: Being an Essay Concerning Will in Its Metaphysical, Physiological Pathological Aspects<br><br>The essay will not be in vain if it serve to bring home to mental philosophers the necessity of taking serious account of a class of facts and thoughts which, though they are not philosophy, may claim not to be ignored by philosophy. After all, it will not be labour lost, since they may well Spare a little time from their work of saying over and over again, in different and not always clearer language, what was said more than two thousand years ago, and of diligently endeavouring to do now by the same method what men of not less philosophical aptitudes and capacities failed to do then.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.