The regular transmutation of motions which are at first voluntary into secondary automatic motions, as Hartley calls them, is due to a gradually effected organisation; and we may rest assured of this, that co-ordinate activity always testifies to stored-up power, either innate or acquired.
Bagehot asserts that the transition from voluntary to automatic actions reflects a deeper organizational change in the individual.
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