The Mystic Will

The Mystic Will, by Charles
Godfrey Leland

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Title: The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the
Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple,
Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland

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Transcriber's note:
In the Introduction, I have changed "yet is is a very literal truth" to "yet
it is a very literal truth". Also in the Introduction, I changed the spelling
of "faculities" to "faculties" (other spelling remains unchanged). Finally,
while most of the proper names are capitalized, not all of them are, and
I have left the uncapitalized names as they appeared in the original.

THE MYSTIC WILL
A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind,
through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to
Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence
by
CHARLES G. LELAND

American Edition Published by The Progress Company 515-519 Rand
McNally Building Chicago, Illinois English Representatives: L. N.
Fowler & Co. 7, Imperial Arcade, Ludgate Circus, London, E. C.

In Memorium
Charles Godfrey Leland
AMERICAN AUTHOR WHO DIED MARCH 20, 1903 AT
FLORENCE, ITALY AGED 79
"The good that men do lives after them."

PUBLISHER'S NOTICE.

This wonderful treatise was first published in England several years
ago, under the title of "Have You a Strong Will?" and has run through
several editions there. In its original form, it was printed in quite large
type, double-leaded, and upon paper which "bulked out" the book to
quite a thick volume. Some copies have been sold in America, but the
price which dealers were compelled to charge for it, in its original
shape, prevented the wide circulation that it merited, and which its
author undoubtedly desired for it, for it seems to have been a labor of
love with him, the interest of the race in his wonderful theories
evidently being placed above financial returns by Mr. Leland.
Believing that the author's ideas and wishes would be well carried out
by the publication of an American edition printed in the usual size type
(without the expedient of "double-leading" unusually large type in
order to make a large volume), which allows of the book being sold at a
price within the reach of all, the publisher has issued this edition along
the lines indicated.
The present edition is identical with the original English edition with
the following exceptions:
(1) There has been omitted from this edition a long, tiresome chapter
contained in the original edition, entitled "On the Power of the Mind to
master disordered Feelings by sheer Determination. As Set forth by
Immanuel Kant in a letter to Hufeland," but which chapter had very
little to say about "the power of the mind," but very much indeed about
Hygiene, Dietetics, Sleep, Care of Oneself in Old Age, Hypochondria,
Work, Exercise, Eating and Drinking, Illness, etc., etc., from the point
of view of the aged German metaphysician, which while interesting
enough in itself, and to some people, was manifestly out of place in a
book treating upon the development of Mental Faculties by the Will,
etc. We think that Mr. Leland's admirers will find no fault with this
omission.
(2) The word "Suggestion" has been substituted for the word
"Hypnotism" in several places in the original text, where the former
word was manifestly proper according to the present views of
psychologists, which views were not so clearly defined when the book

was written.
(3) The chapter headings of the original book have been shortened and
simplified in accordance with the American form.
(4) The title "The Mystic Will" has been substituted in place of that
used in the original edition, which was "Have You a Strong Will?" This
change was made for the reason that the original title did not give one
the correct idea of the nature of the book, but rather conveyed the idea
of an inquiry regarding the "iron-will," etc., which the author evidently
did not intend. The use of the Will, as taught in the book by Mr. Leland,
is not along the lines of "the iron-will," but is rather in the nature of the
employment of a mystic, mysterious, and almost weird power of the
Human Will, and the title of the present edition is thought to more
correctly represent the