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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Will |
 | | Thus, an act of will is the usual condition of attention and of all sustained application of the cognitive faculties. |
 | | The capital error of the Hedonist school was the doctrine that the will is attracted only by pleasure, that, in the words of Mill, "to find a thing pleasant and to will it are one and the same". |
 | | Hence control of attention is the vital point in the education of the will, for will is simply reason in act, or as Kant put it, the causality of reason, and by acquiring this power of control, reason itself is strengthened. |
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