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Automatism   Listen
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Automatism  n.  The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. Specifically: (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter.





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"Automatism" Quotes from Famous Books



... disquieting reforms in recruitment and consequently, in the education of our regiments, would it not be opportune to study Ardant du Picq and look for the secret of force in his ideas rather than in the deceptive illusions of military automatism and materialism? ...
— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
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... Flourney dated August 9, 1908, James says of later investigations: "It seems to me that these reports open a new chapter in the history of automatism.... Evidently automatism is a word that covers an extraordinary variety of fact." The reports of Mrs. Piper's sittings fill a large place in the Society's records. Dr. Richard Hodgson and Professor Hyslop were finally led to accept ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins
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... bound down-hill, and in so timing its rush as to inflict the greatest possible scare on any unwary shade who might be wandering below. He got so great and such varied amusement out of this that his labour had become the automatism of reflex action—which is, I understand, the name applied by men of science to all actions that are done without reflection. He was a pompous, ponderous old gentleman, very irritable and always thinking that the other shades were laughing at him or trying to take advantage ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler
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... of those who have led successful insurrection; nor can the dazzling genius of these brilliant exceptions be appreciated, unless it be remembered how infinitely small has been the number of those among mankind who, having been once drilled to rigid conformity, have not lapsed into automatism, but have been endowed with the mental energy to revolt. On the other hand, though ecclesiastics have differed widely in the details of the training they have enforced upon the faithful, they have agreed upon this cardinal principle: they have ...
— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams
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