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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 284, page id 1030877386:0284
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(284)
Came man. Is is the Appetice and Wil in man or beast mero
not the samethine. or that sensual men and beastsdid not delibe-
rate, and chuse onc rhing before another, in the same manner, that
rise mendo. Nor can ic besaidof WWills, that one is rational, the
ether sensirive; but of men. And if it be grante d rhat delibera
tion is almayes (as it is not) there vere no cause to call men ratio.
nail more thenbeasts. Por it is manif est by continual experience,
that beasts do D. liberate.
(6) The ocher chins obserreable is hiis conclusion, chac it
is allene tosay, a manis free, and to say, he hath not made an end
of deliberarine. Wtich contection of his, ovorcurns his whole
Sructure oFabsolutonecessity. rrhy so? Becaule (saichhe)
il every Asent be necessicated to aet whac he doth aet by ex-
erinsical caules, then heisno more Free before he Deliberares.
Or Whils he Deliberates, then heis afrer. Dut this is a false con-
Cequenoe; he sould have inferred thus, chen heis no lesse necesi-
caced, beforeheDeliberaces, then heis atcer; rrhich is true-
ind ret neverthelesse he is more frec. But talins necessity tobe
inconsistent mich Liberty (Whiob is the quostion betmeenns) in
Read of necestirated he purs in not free. And pberefore tosaz, 2
manis Frec ill he hach made an end ot Deliberarins, is ne con-
tradiction eo absolure and antecedent necessity. Andmbereas he
adds presently aster, that L ascribe the necessirarion of a man in
Trec acts r his oron deliberariem and in indeliberaie acts to his last
thonches, he mistahes the matter; for laseribe all necessity, to the
univer(al Series or Order of causes, dependine on the first cause
eternal. Wrhich the Bistop understandetn, as if Thad said in his
Phrase to a special inAuence of extrinsecal causes, that is, under-
standeth ic not at all.
(C)
FAsaIn, Liberty (PaicH HC) is an absenceof extrinsecat
impesiments, but Deliberation dorh produce no neu extrinse.
callimpedimene; eheretore cicter he is frec atter Deliberation
Or he WaS nO: free before) Lcannot perceive in these mords
any rore force os inference, then of so many other mords mhatso-
ever put rocether at adventure. But be his meaning mhat he Wril-
Tsay not that deliberation, porducerh any impediments, (for there
are no impediments, but tothe Action, ist ve are endea vonrine
5odo it, mhich is not rill me have done deliberatins.) But durine
tho