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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 66, page id 1030877386:0078
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0avoid the spur. Sohe mays and vec be Far enoupt Prom
deliberarion. AI ehis proceeds trom che lensicire passion
ottcar, hichis a percurbarion aritins tromthe expectari-
on otsome imminene eril. Buc he urgech, Whac elledoch
man chac deliberacech.  Tesrery much. TheHlorie Fcarech
Tome ourmard object, buc deliberacion is a comparins ot
several means conducins eo ehe lame end. Fear is com-
mouly ot one, deliberation oE more chan onc; fcaris ot
etiole chinos which are noc in our pover, deliberation ot
chiose chinss irhichare in our pover; cear arilech many
simes oucofnatural ancipathies, buc in chele dilconreniences
oF nature, deliberarion hach no place ac all. In a Word,
Ecar is an eneray co deliberacion, andbetraz ech the succours
oFche Soul. IEche Horse did deliberace, hehould con-
ulewichreason, whether ic vere more expediene For him
050 chac may or not; He vouldreprelene eo himselt, all
ehe dansers boch of soins, and cagins, and compare chie
one wich cheocher, and elect chac hichis less evil: He
Miould consider Whecher ic vere noc beccer co endure a licele
hazard, chanunsracetully and diltionealy eo Fail in his du-
eycomardstis Master, who did brcedhim, and doch. Fced
tim. ThischeHlorse dochnoc;. Neichec is ic postible for
him codoic. Sccondly, lor Children. F. FI. Consessech
chac cher may be (o vouns, chaccher do noc deliberare ac
alI; Afcermards aschey accein eo cheule ot realon by de-
prees, lo by depcces chey becometree Asens. Then chey
do deliberace, betore chey do noc deliberace. The rod
may be ameanscomakechem ule cheir realon, wlenchez
hare porerro exercile ic, buc cherod cannoc produceche
pover betore cher have ic. Thirdly, For Fools and
mad Mens Ic isnocro beunderttood of such mad Men a5
have cheir lacida intervalla, Who arc mad. and disereec by
Aces; Whien chey hare cheuse of reason, chey are no mad
Men, buc may deliberare as wellas ochers; Nor yet ofluch
Foolsas are onty compararire Fools, chacis, lelswise than
Octiers. Such may deliberare, chousti noc loclcarly, nor
I0 judiciousy 25 ochers; bur of mcer madMen, and meer
nacural F0ols, co lay chae chey, who hare noccheuse ot
realon.