this. Similarly, we can try to feel joy or anger or hope, but we will not do so until the experience comes together; and it doesn’t always do so. So I am not saying that just any emotion is subject to just anybody’s will under just any circumstances, but rather that some emotions are subject to some people’s will under some circumstances. And this seems to be presupposed by the New Testament practice of commanding emotions. C. S. Lewis somewhere advises that if you want to become a Christian, but
Page 29