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how, in the heat if conversation, I might be led to take a different tone, I proceed to impress the resolution upon my soul, so that when the interview takes place, although my thoughts are then occupied with the matter of the talk, and may never revert to my resolution, nevertheless the determination of my being does influence my conduct.
is over, I review it, and ask myself whether my conduct accorded with my resolution.
If think it did have a feeling of satisfaction.
I may however probe deeper, and may ask myself whether my conduct according with my general intentions.
If I find it did I have a deeper satisfaction, I may go so far as to ask how it accords with my experience, if noy, I feel the prick of conscience.
This, it will be acknowledged is a fairly correct account of what takes place in many cases; correct, I an, in this respect, that my conduct is determined the peculiarity of which is that the less I think acknowledged of the more i am tormented on it.