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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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orh that Forses, Doce5, and other brute beasts do demurre
oftentimes apon the nuy theyarecotabe. The Forse reciring
From some strange ficure hesces, and ermine on acainto avoid the
spuro And mhat cts. duh man ihac a: liberateth, but one
vehile procced comard action, an ther rohilo rerirefrom it, ac
ihohope os crea er cord darres him, er the fear of creater evill
driveshim aCsild miybe se vonnq as eod, all which it does
miehose al deliberaim butchat is but tisit chance to behurt be
doins somenhat, or sill ic beof ase to anderstand rhe rod3 for
ehe actims mhereinhe hathon ea check, Ballbe d liberated on
iho sccondrim. Fors and mad Mlen m nifestlu d liberate no
less tban the visest Men, thonchth. y makee not se e00d a choise,
cheimaces of thine, beine by diseases altered. For Bees and
Spiders, is hehad solinle ro de astobe a spectatorof their asti-
ons, he montd have confessednot onty Flection, but al(o Arr
Prudence, and Polier in them, very near equal to that of
Manteind. OfBees Ariltorle sayes, their life is civit. Eleis
deccived, if hethinte any spontansons action aster once beine
checteed in it, differs from an action vobuntary and eloctive, for
eventhe serring of a mans foot in theposture of mallinq. andthe
action of ordixary eating mas once d. liberaced, hom and when
it Bould be done; Andthonchit aftermard becom casie and ba-
birnat, soas to be dine mithont forc. thoneht, yet that dies not
hinder. butthat ebe act is voluntary, and proceods from electi–
on. Se also are therastreft actions of choleriete porsons volun-
tarr and apon deliberation; for who is there but very zonne chil
dren thathas not considered, when and bem far ho onght on safely
may, striho or revile. Seoine thenhe acrees mith me that sueb
actions are nececessatod, and ehe faney of those that de them is
determined eothe actionsther de, il follons ont of his onn dictrine,
thatthe diberty of election does not take amay the necessity of e-
lecting this or tbat individualthine. Andihus onc ofhis Ar-
rumenes fehes acainst anortier
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