will-made

Updated: July 29, 2026

But I have nothing to do here with the universal 'Conservation of Force. The conception of the nervous organs as stores of will-made power does not raise or need so vast a discussion. Still less are these principles to be confounded with Mr. Buckle's idea that material forces have been the main-springs of progress, and moral causes secondary, and, in comparison, not to be thought of.

Walter Bagehot - Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society