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_Motor Automatism_, on the other hand, is a non-reflex movement of a voluntary muscle, executed in the waking state but not controlled by the ordinary waking consciousness.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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_Kinship and Marriage in Australia_; &c. - Automatism.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Automatism, not intelligence, is the moving factor therein.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Automatism, which it tries to draw in the direction of freedom, winds about it and drags it down.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Automatism lays hold of it, and life, inevitably forgetting the end which it had determined, which was only to be a means in view of a superior end, is entirely used up in an effort to preserve itself by itself.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912
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[Sidenote: Automatism fundamental and irresponsible.]
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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The essay on "Animal Automatism" suggested a reminiscence of Professor Lankester's as to the way in which it was delivered, and this in turn led to Huxley's own account of the incident in the letter given in volume 2.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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Automatism, inelasticity, habit that has been contracted and maintained, are clearly the causes why a face makes us laugh.
Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Henri Bergson 1900
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Automatism, which it tries to draw in the direction of freedom, winds about it and drags it down.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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