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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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e adds, thar it chere beno necessicarion besore the fudemene
ofrishe realon doch dictace co ehe Will, chen chere is nO AN-
EecedOnE nOr Exrrinsecal necestitation aE aII. YCay indecdthe
effcet is not produced before the last dictate of the understandine;
but TCay not that the necessiry mas not before; he lnoms I (ay it is
Frem eterniey. Wben a C annon is plante d acainst a Wrall. thongh
the batrery benot made rill the bullet arrive, ret the nec. ssity vas
present al the wbile the bullet mas coing toit, is che rail stood
still; andis it stipt amay, the birtins of somembat el se mas necessa-
ry and that anteceaenly.
(1) (AIThe NorId knons, chac when the ABent is dexer-
mined By himselE, then the effect is derermined likewise in iEs
caule. Tes, rhenthe Acent is d termined by himsels, thenthe
effeet is derermine d litemiseinis cause, and so any thine else is
what he willhave it. Dut nothine is determined by it self, nor is
there any man in the rorid that huth auy Concepiion ansverable
to those Wrords. But Mocires (he Cars) decermine noc naturally
buc MoraIIV. This alsois insignificant, for alt Mocion is X a
tural or Supernatural. Moral motion is a meer rord, mithous
any Tmacinarion of the mind correspondent toir. Thave beard
men talle of a Morion in a Coure of Fustice; perbaps this is it
Which he means hy Moral Morion. But certainty when the toncue
of the Fnde, and chehands of che Clertes are thereby movid,
the Mlorion is Xatural, and proceed trom nacural causes. Which
canses also, vere Natural Mocions of the toneve of tbe Advocate.
And whereas headds, thar is elis vere rrue thennoc orels Mo-
tires, but reason ic selF, and deliberation vere vain, it hach been
sufficiently ansvered before that therefore theyare not vain, be-
cause by them is produced the effect. I must alsonote that often
times in citins my opinion, he purs in instendof mine, tbose terms
ofhis omn. Which upon alt occasions T complain of for absurdity; as
herehemakes meto (ay, that mbich L didnever say, Special in-
Auence ot exerintical canses.
(R) He Caich, chac rhe ienorance of the true causes, and their
Porver, is the reason rhy e ascribethe effect to Liberty hut
When me serionsty consider the causes ofrhines, e actenontedee a
nocessiey. No sucto chins, buc jusFRE CONETaEY.) I ho under.
stand the Auchors whieh he readethupon this point nobetter then
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