160 VOLITION 



stage of a microscope is scarcely to be explained 

 by the impact upon them of external forces. 

 Volition, like consciousness, has its roots in the 

 beginnings of Life, although we may hardly 

 compare the spasmodic capriciousness in which 

 it first becomes manifest, with the freedom that 

 is exercised, consciously and deliberately, by the 

 mind of man. 



