Our generation has been intent on the development of the intellect. We have been neglecting the will. "Shell shock" experiences have shown us that the intellect is largely the source of unfavorable suggestion. The will is the controlling factor in the disease. Many another demonstration of the power of will has been furnished by the War. This volume is meant to help in the restoration of the will to its place as the supreme faculty in life, above all the one on whose exercise, more than any other single factor, depends health and recovery from disease. The time seems opportune for its appearance and it is commended to the attention of those who have recognized how much the modern cult of intellect left man unprepared for the ruder trails of life yet could not see clearly what the remedy might be. {ix} CONTENTS PAGE Preface vii CHAPTER I The Will in Life 1 II Dreads 19 III Habits 42 IV Sympathy 57 V Self-Pity 69 VI Avoidance of Conscious Use of the Will 80 VII What the Will Can Do 102 VIII Pain and the Will 112 IX The Will and Air and Exercise 133 X The Will to Eat 148 XI The Place of the Will in Tuberculosis 167 XII The Will in Pneumonia 187 XIII Coughs and Colds 196 XIV Neurotic Asthma and the Will 207 XV The Will in Intestinal Function 215 XVI The Will and the Heart 227 XVII The Will in So-Called Chronic Rheumatism 240 XVII Psycho-Neuroses 258 XIX Feminine Ills and the Will 270 Index 285 {1} HEALTH THROUGH WILL POWER CHAPTER I THE WILL IN LIFE "What he will he does and does so much That proof is called impossibility." _Troilus and Cressida._