RELATION OF THE WILL TO OTHER FACULTIES 531 CHAPTER III. FREEDOM OF THE WILL 538 SECTION I.--PRESUMPTIONS IN FAVOR OF FREEDOM 539 SECTION II.--DIRECT ARGUMENT 544 CHAPTER IV. CERTAIN QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE PRECEDING 549 SECTION I.--CONTRARY CHOICE 549 SECTION II.--POWER TO DO WHAT WE WERE NOT DISPOSED TO DO 551 SECTION III.--INFLUENCE OF MOTIVES 554 I. IS THE WILL ALWAYS AS THE GREATEST APPARENT GOOD 554 II. IS THE WILL DETERMINED BY THE STRONGEST MOTIVE 555 III. ARE MOTIVES THE CAUSE AND VOLITIONS THE EFFECT 556 CHAPTER V. THE DOCTRINE OF THE WILL VIEWED IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN TRUTHS OF RELIGION 560 SECTION I.--THE POWER WHICH GOD EXERTS OVER THE HUMAN MIND AND WILL 561 SECTION II.--MAN'S POWER OVER HIMSELF 566 CHAPTER VI. STRENGTH OF WILL 569 CHAPTER VII. HISTORICAL SKETCH--OUTLINE OF THE CONTROVERSY RESPECTING FREEDOM OF THE WILL 573 REFERENCES 584 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. ON THE NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL SCIENCE. § I.--NATURE OF THE SCIENCE. _Mental Philosophy, what._--What is Mental Philosophy, as distinguished from other branches of science? Philosophy, in the wide sense usually given it, denotes the investigation and explanation of the causes of things; it seeks to discover, and scientifically to state, the general laws both of matter and mind; its object is to ascertain facts, and their relation to each other. Mental Philosophy has for its object to ascertain the facts and laws of mental operation.