irreflective

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“Far behind Scott in the power of instinctive, irreflective, spontaneous creation of character, Stevenson tells his story with more art and with a firmer grip on his reader.”

From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

But how could we think it, if the only possible life was that one which we intend to think, and not the one with which we think this irreflective life?

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

He obeys his instincts and indulges his appetites with the irreflective simplicity of an animal.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

And from this day I was an altered creature, never again relapsing into the careless, irreflective mind of childhood.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas

Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left in its crude and comparatively irreflective state.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John