text:  The habit however of philosophical analysis of which it is the surest effect to enable the mind to command instead of being commanded by the laws of the merely passive part of its own nature and which by showing to us that things are not necessarily connected in fact because their ideas are connected in our minds is able to loosen innumerable associations which reign despotically over the undisciplined mind; this habit is not without power even over those associations which the philosophical school of which I have been speaking regard as connate and instinctive