Willingly or unwillingly

Meaning

Phrase.

This Latin expression appears inside French’s English commendation. It intensifies his assertion that repeated unbiased reading will compel belief in the stone’s possibility and other incredible mysteries. The modernisation translates it as willingly or unwillingly. Its force is rhetorical persuasion about the book’s effect, not evidence that every actual reader was convinced or that the asserted effects were experimentally established.