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in the main, have been imbibed in childhood.
Still they have gradually been shaped to his personal nature and to the ideas of his circle of society rather by a continuous process of growth than by any distinct acts of thought.
Reflecting upon these ideals, he is led to intned to make his [?] conduct conform at least to a part of them, to that part in which he throughtly believes.
Next, [?] usually formulates, however vaguely, certain rules of conduct.
He can hardly help doing so.
Besides such rules are convenient and served to minimize the effects, future inadvertence and what are named the wiles of the devil within him.
Reflection upon these rules as well as upon the general ideals behind them, has a certain effect upon his disposition, so that what he naturally incline to so becomes modified.
Such being his condition, he often foresees that a special occaion is going to arise; There upon, a certain gathering of his forces begn to work and this working of his being will cause him to consider how he will act and in accordance with his disposition, such as it now is, he is led to form a resolution as to how he will act upon that occasion.
This resolution is of the nature of a plan: or one might almost sat, a diagram.
It is a mental formula always