Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
Joseph Priestley (1777). “The Doctrine of Philofophical Neceffity Illustrated: Being an Appendix to the Difquifitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is Added an Anfwer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hartley's Theory of the Mind [by Joseph Perington].”, p.36
