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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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(2.  73
ehe fire wich ehe chree Chilaren. Je is rioeche Arengeh oF thie
ind, buc che lighenels oF the chass, which cansechic to be
blonn away. Oueward objects donoc impole a moral, much
lels a Phssical necestier, ehey may be danserous, buc cannoc be
dettructi eto erue liberes.
T. TI.
PFiraly, he dispareth acainst che opinionos ehemthat say. ex-
ternal ob ects presented to men of such and such temperatures,
domale their actions necessary. And sares, the poder that luch
objects have over us, procecd fromour omnfault; Dut that is
nothine rothe purpose, if such fault of ours proceedeth from causes,
not in our omn porver. And therefore chat opinion may hold rrue
for al this ansver: Purtherhe saith, Prayer, Fastine, 5c.
may alier our habirs. T is true, but mhenther de so, they are
causes of the contrary habit, and mate it necessary; as the for-
mer habit had been necessary, is Prayer, Fastine, c. had not
been. Besides me are not mooved, nor disposed 10 prayer, or any
ot er action but by outmard objects, as pions company, codly
Dreachers, or somethine equivalent. Trirdly, hesaith, a resolved
mind is not easilu surprised. As the mind of WIYNTCS, mho mhen
others wepi, healone Wept not. Andos the Fhilosopherthat ab-
sainedfromstrilins, because hefound nimself aney. Andos
himthar poured out Le Warer when he mas chirsty; And the lite.
Such thines confesshave, or may have been done, and de prove
enely that it as not necessary for UIyDes thento mecp, nor for ibe
Philosophertostrike, nor for chat oiher man to drinte, but it does
not prove chat it mas not nece ary for UlyIles i’en to abstain, as he
did Trom mecpine, nor the Philosopherto abstainas he did from
strikeino: Nor the otber man eo forbear drinkins. And yet that mas
the r ine he ouche rohave proved.
Lastly, he consesseth, that the disposition os objects may be
dance ons r0 liberry, bur cannot be destructive. T0 whicb L
ansver, tis impossible; For, liberey is never in any other dancer
thancobe lost. Andis it cannot be lost, Which he conseseth, L may
inser it can be inno danser at all.