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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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tho Ducstion, ve are to lenor ihe difforence between these
ehree. successitu, Spontancity, and Liberiy; und becanse l
thouche he enem that it could xot be eleare dvithont under
standinq what is Will, had reasontochinte that Spontancity
was hisne word for Will. Ana presencly afier lone Chinss
acc Hccecary, aVd HOC VOlUREAEY OT SpOnEanEOUS; lome
chircsareboch Necellary ard Voluncary. These mords, Yo
luntarr and spontaneons so put rocetver, vouldmate any
manbeleeve Spontaneom vese put as explicative of Volun-
caru; forit is no onder in The eloquence of the 30h0ol men.
Therefore presently after, ihese mords Sponcaneies conistsin
2 contormiry ot che Appecice, cicher incellcetual or Censirive,
sionifiethat Spontaneity is a conformity or likenessof the appe-
ertero the obiect: Whehto me soundeth as if he had said, that
tbe apperite is libe the Obiect: Which is as proper as if hehad
said the Huncer is like ihe Meat. Is this be the BictroPS
meanins, as it is the meanine of theWoras, he is a very fine
Philosopher. Buc hereafcer LWill vemure no more to say his
meaninzu is ilis oc thac, especially vere he nseth terms of
eArt.
CThiralys he saith, Laleribe lpontaneicy oneis eo FoOIS.
Chilaren, mad Men ana BCaCtS. Buc l actnowledee spon-
taneity hach place in rataonilmen, _c.
T resolve to have no more to do mith Spontancity. But L
desirc the Reader 1o takenotice, that the common pcople, on
ahose arbitration dependeththe signification of ords in com-
conuse amons the Latines and Greeks did call all actions and
motions Whereofther did perceiveno cause, Spantancons, and
avrouara: Y Cay, not those actions which had no canses, for
att astions have their canses, but those actions
hose causes they did not perceive. Sothat Spontancons ac a
ceneralname comprehendea many actions and motions of ina-
nimate creatures; as thefalline of beavy thines donnmards,
hicbtheychouche spantancons, and that it they vere not hin-
dred, they mould discend of their omnaccord. It comprehen-
ded also alt animal morion, as becinnine fromthe Willor Ap-
petite; because the causes of the illand Appetite beine not
perceivedus eheu supposedas ihe Bisrop deth ibat chey vere the
canses