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The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economised by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economised by a sleepy kind of habit, its results…”
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Bagehot posits that human action is largely driven by habitual behavior rather than conscious will.
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