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Voluntary muscular motions are occasionally causable by sensations.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Many of the motions of our muscles, that are excited into action by irritation, are at the same time accompanied with painful or pleasurable sensations; and at length become by habit causable by the sensations.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Many of the motions of our organs of sense, or ideas, that were originally excited into action by irritation, become in like manner more frequently causable by our sensations of pleasure or pain.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

But as many of these fibrous contractions frequently accompanied other fibrous contractions, by habit they became causable by their associations with them; and the irritations, sensations, and volition, ceased to be necessary to their production.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

In like manner the sensual motions, or ideas, that are most frequently connected with volition, are nevertheless occasionally causable by painful or pleasurable sensation.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus