{"id":5934,"date":"2013-09-20T11:39:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2013-09-20T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T10:39:54","slug":"ur-quote-on-addiction-and-freewill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2013\/09\/20\/ur-quote-on-addiction-and-freewill\/","title":{"rendered":"ur-quote on addiction and freewill"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe craving for a drink in real dipsomaniacs, or for opium or chloral in those subjugated, is of a strength of which normal persons can form no conception. \u2018Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room and were a cannon constantly discharging balls between me and it, I could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get the rum\u2019; \u2018If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand and the pit of hell yawned at the other, and I were convinced that I should be pushed in as sure as I took one glass, I could not refrain\u2019: such statements abound in dipsomaniacs\u2019 mouths.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">William James, <i>Principles of Psychology<\/i> (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890), p. 543. Via Laurence. Thanks Laurence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The craving for a drink in real dipsomaniacs, or for opium or chloral in those subjugated, is of a strength of which normal persons can form no conception. \u2018Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room and were a cannon constantly discharging balls between me and it, I could not refrain from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-1xI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5936,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/5936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}