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in the outer body. The thought and the feel- 

 ing in the dormant part give us an ideal and 

 the resulting elation. 



We place certain relations complementary to 

 men in our thought of God, whereupon parts 

 in men that have no present organic use or are 

 but slightly used are stimulated to activity. A 

 religious enthusiast is organically more active 

 than one who responds only to the organic stim- 

 uli needed for present life. The elated lover 

 also has enlarged physical and mental activities, 

 and the products of the latter he attributes to 

 the object of his love. An ideal becomes a 

 motive, and demands a greater and more 

 persistent activity than normal bodily needs 

 create. In the allurements of vice the same 

 process operates. When some dormant part 

 of the organism is made active, weak men 

 impute to the material source the pleasure that 

 the renewed activity creates. Normal persons 

 abhor vice because all their faculties are 

 excited in normal ways, and they see in vice 

 only its misery. But make men abnormal and 

 thus render dormant some of their parts, and 

 a picturing begins which attributes to the 



