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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 286, page id 1030877386:0286
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(286)
erary eo all the rules oFriphe Reason, whicli I have learned
Negatires cannor explicare the nature of chings defined. By
chisdetinition, a sonc hach liberey eo ascend into che aire, DC-
couse chere is no outward impedimene cohinder ic, and (0 a
violene act may bea tree act. Just like his de Finit on arehis
instances ofthe liberer ot che mater eo descend donn cheChan.
nell, and a TICK Or a lame mans liberer 1080. The later is an
impocence and noc a porver or a liberer. Theformeris sotar
trombeins a trec act, chac ic is scarce a nacural act. Cerrainly.
ehe prover natural morion ot macer, as oF allheary Bodies, is
eo descend direet Wr downmards corards the center, as we lec in
rain, which falls donn perpendicularly. Thoush ehis DeFar
Froma free act, Which proceeds trom a racional apperire, yer it
is a nacural act, and procceds trom a nacural apperice, and hach
its reason michin in ic selF. SO hath nCE che current ofrhe river in
its Channel, Which mult noc be ascribed eo the proper nacure
Ot the acer, buc cicher to the general order ot cheuniverle,
For che becrer beins and preserracion ofche creacures (other-
Wise che waters hould noc moore in Seas and Rivers asthey
do, buc corerthetace otrhe carch, and possels cheir prover
place Becweenche aire and che carch, accordins corhe degree
OF cheir gravicz.) Or eo an exerinsecal principle, Whilttone
parcicle oF wacer chrustech and Forcech formard anocher, and
FO COmeES A CUTTeHE, Or at least PO comes the current to Be more
impecuous, eo which motion che posirion oFche earch doch
contribure much, boch by restrainins chac Auid body wich ies
banns trom dispertins it selE, and also, by affordins way for a
Fair and ealr descent by ies proclivier. Hlerellsus Cadly chacthe
Water manes liberty to eoover the bantes, becanse there is an ex-
trinsecat impediment, But to ascend up the channel it mants not
liberty, but porver. Wty: Liberey is a pover, iE IE WanE pOVeE
to ascend, is wanes liberer co ascend. Bur hemakes chereason
utiy che water ascends nor up the channel, eo be inerinsecal, and
thereason why ic ascends noc over che bantis eo be extrinsecal,
25 if chere vere noc a ritins oFche sround up che channel, a5
vellas upchebants, chouxh it denoc (o discernable, nor al-
Wayes (o sudden. The natural apperire oF che water is as much
asainst cheascendins over chebants, a5 che ascendins up che
channel.