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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(B) FBuC itiereas He mErEIOnS a great Paradox of his on
that there is hardly anyone Action, 10 ehe cansine of which con-
curres not mhatsoever is IHFerUE natUEA; Pean buL Imile eO sec
Wich irtiae ambition our sreat undertaters do affect eo be ac
connted che first tounders ot Aranee opinions; _c. J. Zhe
Bistop speates often of Paradoxes which such scornor detestation
that a simple Reader vonld take a Paradox either for Felony, or
some ocberhainons brime, or else for (ome redientons curpiende
rhereas perhaps a Fudicions Reader hnons irhat ihe mord
senifies. And chat a Paradon is an opinion not yet generalis re-
ccived. Christian Rechrion mas onve a Paradox; and a creat many
oher opinions mhibhehe Distop nom holderh, vere formeriy Para-
doxes. Tnsomuct as hen a man calleth an opinion Paradox, he
doch not sad ieisunerue, buc scenistechbis omn ienorance; for is he
understodd it, he mould callis cither a truchon an errour. Fse ob-
serves n. t, thatbut for Paradoxes, me Bould be nom in that sa-
vace ienorance Whichthose menare insthar have not, or have nt
lone had Laus and Common Wealth, from whence porccedeth
Scienet and C ivility. Fhere Was not lons since a Scholler that
maintaine d that if ehe least chine that had maiehe Bould be laid
deton upon the hardest bodi that contabe, supposine il an Anvillof
Diamant, et voula at thie first accesse mate it rectd. This L
tho.h, and mucis morethe Bisto monld have thoneht a Para-
dox. But wohen he told me, that eriher thac wsuld doit, or all the
vaieht of the Wrorid mould not doeit, because is the whole maiche
did it, every the least part thereof wonld de irs part; J Cam n rea-
son rodissent. In lite manner mhen I say chereis harely any one
Action cortre cansins os which concurs not whacloerer is in
rerum natura; It scemsto the Bisop. a erent Paradox; andif I
Bould say that all Actionis the effect of Morion, and that there
cannot be a Motion in one part of ebe rorid. but the same must also
be communicated to all ihe rest of the Worid, he mould say thatchis
vereno lesse a Pdradox. Dut yer is TBould say. thar is a lesser
body as a concave sphereor Tun vere filled wich air or other
lignid matrer. and that any one lirele parriele thereos vere moved,
all the rest voula bemoved also, he vould conceive it toberrue, or
is nothe, a jnaicions reader vould. Wt is nt the Greatnessof the
Tun that alteresh ehe case; and cheresore tWe same vouta be true
also