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Bowen favored an "autonomous" posture with the qualities Wright mentions: cerebral detachment, an American "inner directedness."

From Time Magazine Archive

James early described the former fact, showing that the mechanism of habit can give the directedness or purposefulness in thought's products, provided that mechanism includes something paralleling the problem, the aim, or need, in question.

From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)