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RESUMING this subject, I again call attention to the circumstance that unconscious thought in children is more developed than conscious thought, though conscious thought or sensation lays the foundation of what becomes habitual or instinctive. In man, unconscious thought becoming habitual, it is the nursery again of conscious thought, the two conditions in the adult coexisting.
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CLARKE, H. Unconscious Thought. Nature 21, 202–203 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021202e0
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