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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

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

For this purpose he continues to repeat the first syllable, which is causable by volition, and strives in vain, by various distortions of countenance, to produce the next links, which are subject to association.

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