Horme is something which belongs to life in general, to what we might call a divine force which is the promoter of all evolution. This vital force of evolution is expressed in the child by a will to perform certain actions. This will cannot be broken by anything short of death. I call it ‘will’ because we possess no better word to describe it. It is not will, however, because will implies consciousness and reasoning. It is a subconscious vital force which urges the child to do certain things and in the normally growing child its unhindered activity is manifested in what we call ‘joy of life,’
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