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more or less general.
Being nothing more than an idea, this resolution does not necessarily influence his conduct.
But now he sits down and goes through a process similar to that of impressing a lesson upon his memory.
The result if which is that the resolution, or mental formula, is converted into a determination, by which I mean a really efficient agency, such that of one knows what its special character is one can forecast the man's conduct on the special occasion.
One cannot make forecasts that will come true in the majority of trials of them by means of any figment.
It must be by means of something true and real.
We do not know by what machinery the conversion of a resolution into a determination is broght about.
Several hypotheses have been proposed; but they do not much concern us just now.
Suffice it to say that the determination, or efficient agency,