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dissatisfied with the habit, could easily repeat the experiment, but is too well satisfied to be able to do so. I call a compulsion 'Brute,' if, and only if, its immediate efficacy nowise consists in conformity to any law or reason. Thus the acceleration downwards of the motion of a single falling body at any instant (if there be such a thing as an instantaneous acceleration,) does not consist in the behaviour of any other body, nor even of the one body at any other time, and so is in itself independent of any general rule, and is Brute. It may be compared

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