Freedom of Mind in Willing Or Every Being That Wills a Creative First Cause
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* Though more unlike, rational actions become habit- * See Appendix, Note XXIV.
120 FREEDOM OF MIND IN WILLING.
ual by the same process by the repetition, on like oc casions, of the series of efforts embracing the plan of ac tion, till we distinctly remember the routine of the suc cessive efforts, and can go over them in the same order, without reference to the end or the reason of such or der. In the habitual, as already intimated, the mind may determine each successive action, not by its per ...ception of its connection with the future, but by associa tion with that which is past ; and this analogy of such actions to the movement of a material body by a force behind it, without itself perceiving its course in the fu ture, has probably favored the popular application of the term mechanical to habitual actions, which was naturally enough suggested by the comparatively small amount of mental effort they require.
It is obvious that a very large proportion of the ac tions of adults are habitual, and that our rational ac tions, in becoming habitual, approach so nearly to in stinctive, is probably one cause of that difficulty in distinguishing the instinctive from the rational, which is so general ; a difficulty which may be further in creased by the instinctive also actually becoming habit ual, the two thus blending together and becoming un- < distinguishable in one common reservoir, from which the main current of our actions subsequently flows, and through which it is often difficult to trace their respect ive sources.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
* Though more unlike, rational actions become habit- * See Appendix, Note XXIV.
120 FREEDOM OF MIND IN WILLING.
ual by the same process by the repetition, on like oc casions, of the series of efforts embracing the plan of ac tion, till we distinctly remember the routine of the suc cessive efforts, and can go over them in the same order, without reference to the end or the reason of such or der. In the habitual, as already intimated, the mind may determine each successive action, not by its per ...ception of its connection with the future, but by associa tion with that which is past ; and this analogy of such actions to the movement of a material body by a force behind it, without itself perceiving its course in the fu ture, has probably favored the popular application of the term mechanical to habitual actions, which was naturally enough suggested by the comparatively small amount of mental effort they require.
It is obvious that a very large proportion of the ac tions of adults are habitual, and that our rational ac tions, in becoming habitual, approach so nearly to in stinctive, is probably one cause of that difficulty in distinguishing the instinctive from the rational, which is so general ; a difficulty which may be further in creased by the instinctive also actually becoming habit ual, the two thus blending together and becoming un- < distinguishable in one common reservoir, from which the main current of our actions subsequently flows, and through which it is often difficult to trace their respect ive sources.
What to read after Freedom of Mind in Willing Or Every Being That Wills a Creative First Cause?
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