...continue in the same steps they have used to; which, by often treading, are worn into a smooth patl1, and the Motion in it becomes easy, and as it were Natural", Essay, 2.33.6, P- 396). 94 Essay. 2.33.8, p. 397. m ("he that would cure it when habit has established...

...the animal spirits, which once set a going, continue in the same steps they have been used to; ... and the motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural. (2. 33. 5-6) For Locke, individual madness and irrationality are not self-produced by violent passions...

...Locke wrote, ideas are formed as "trains of motions in the animal spirits, which once set a going, continue in the same steps they have been used to;...motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural." He used the same images that he had heard in Willis's lectures twenty years earlier, as his teacher...

.... which seems to be but Trains of Motion in the Animal Spirits, which once set a going continue on in the same steps they have been used to, which by...Motion in it becomes easy and as it were Natural. HH There is a dangerous similarity between the "as it were Natural" connections of ideas that are the...

...motion in the animat spirits [by this Locke meant identically what we understand by neural pro. cesses] which, once set agoing, continue in the same steps...are fully present, were for him ' vibrations,' and th. produce ideas of objects in their absence were ' i, vibrations.' And he sums up the cause of mental...

...in the bodv; all which seem to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits which, once set going, continue in the same steps they have been used to,...motion in it becomes easy and, as it were, natural" (John Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding, ed. P. II. Nidditch [Oxford: Clarendon Press,...