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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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eo the morions and inAuenees oF chehearenty bodies, Ehe
Ocher co che complexions oFmen. (a) The lum otmy ansver
Was, thac che scars and complerions do incline, buE nOc ac aII
necesticare the WilI. To wtreh all judicious AAronomers and
Physrcians do aNenc. And T. FI. hiro self doch noc dissent From
it. S0 as eo this part there necds no reply.
(b) Buc Whereashementions a great paradox of his ovon, that
there is baraly any one action to the causine of Which COnCUrres NoE
Wharsoever is in rerum natura. Tean buc sinite eo sec wich Whac
ambirion our preacundertakers do affect to be acconnred the
Erat founders ob trange opinions, as il che derisins oFan ill
fronnded Paradox vere as greac an honour as cheinvention ot
ehe needle, or the discorery of ehenem WVorid. Andcorhis
Paradox in Parricular, I meddle noc mich nacural actions. De-
cause che lubieet ob my ditcourleis moral liberes; Bucifhe in-
cend nor only chekinds ofchines, buc erery indiriduall crea-
cure, and noc onelu in nacural buc roluncary actions, I desire
cokron hou Presten Jobn, Or che Greac Mosol, or cheKins oF
China, or any onc of lo many millions of cheir subjects do con-
cur comy mricins oEchis reply. IFcley do noc amons lus ocher
speculations concernins ehiis marrer, I hope he will siveus
Tome restrictions. It vere hard eo makre allche Nerroes aC-
cellary eo alliche murthers chacare commitred in Purove.
Aimadrersions upontheBistiops
Roply. Numb. XX. I.
Flere is not mueh inthis pare of bis Repty; thatneedeth Ani-
madversion. B,t I. must observo mhereche. (aith.
(a) TThe sum ofmy ansiver wasechae che Scars and
complections doincline, buc norar all necelticarothe Will.
Fle ansvereth nothine ar al rome, mho artribure not the nocessi-
ration of the Will torhe Stars and Complections, bat to the ac-
crecate of alrhines rocether chat are in motion. I do not say ehat
the Stars or Complectionsof themselves do incline mon eo Wil; but
axhenmenaro inclined. Imest say that thnt inclination, Was ne-
cessivated by some causes or other.
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