Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- Joseph Priestley, (Mar 13 1733-1804), English chemist, political theorist, clergyman; He discovered oxygen and wrote studies of gases in Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 1786.