Under the influence of so-called occult science, which is, in reality, simply powerful suggestion or self-hypnotism, all a man's natural impulses and inhibitive springs of action may be broken; he will no longer react to the conceptions of beauty or ugliness, or right or wrong, which, unknown to himself, formed the law of his being.
"Secret Societies And Subversive Movements"
Nesta H. Webster
Not that any special insistence is needed; for the English inhibitive instinct does not seem to exist in Rosscullen.
"John Bull's Other Island"
George Bernard Shaw
So-called "willfulness" is a will in which the volitional power has not yet been balanced with this inhibitive power.
"Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium"
Jessie H. Bancroft