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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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or by this word Body, as When chey Cay, chere is nobody in
chaeroom, chey incend nocco exclude che aire, cicher ouc ot
the ressel, or ouc oftheroom. Tecreason tellsus, chacche
vesel is noc truly empey, and chac the aire is a rrue body. I
mistur sire an hundred such like instances. Ile, Wtro leares rhe
conduet oF his understandins co follon rulsar nocions, Mall
plunse himselF inco e chouland erreurs, like him who leaves a
cerrain suide eo follou an i nis farnus, or a Wils wichche
wispe. S0 his proposicion is Falle. (b) Hisrealon. That
matter of fact is not veritis d by other mens Arcuments, buc by
evcry mans oun sense andmemory. is likemile maimed on boch
sides, Whecher ve hierr fuch words, or noc, is macrer ot tact,
and sense is the proper iudse ofic. Buc Whac chese words do, Or
oushre eruely co signitie, is noc eo be indged by sense butbu
reason. Seconds, reason may, and doch otcencimes correct
sense, eren aboucies proper object. Sense rells usthac che sun
is no bisser chan a g0od BaII, buc reason demonstraces, chac ie
is manr cimes greacer chanthe whole Clobe oFche earch. A5
cohis instance. Ilom can it be proved, that to love a thine, and to
thinte it 500d is al one to a man that doch not marte his ovon meanine
by these mords, Icontels, it cannoc be proved, Foricis nOETrUE.
Beauey and likeness, and lore do conciliate lore as much as
Foodnels, Cosamoris amor. Zove is a pastion ot the will, buE
cojudse oF coodness is an act ot the understandins. A Facher
mas lore an unsracious Child, and vec noc elteem him 5o0d.
A man lores tis omn houle beccer chan anocher mans, vec he
cannoc buc elteem manr ochers beccer chan his omn. His ocher
instance. Flor can ic be proved thar eternity is not nunc laric, 10 a
manthat says chese mords by custome, and never considers hou he
can conceive the thine it self in his minde, is jult like cheformer,
nocto beprored by reason, buc by Fancy, Which is the way he
caties. And ic isnoc unlikethe connsel, which onc gareto a
Novice aboutehe choise oFhis mite, to advice wich che BClS, 25
hetancied (o chey Connded, cicher cake her, or leare her.
(6) Thenfor his assumprion ic is as defectire ashis propo-
Sition, Thac by chese mords spontaneiry, _c. men do understand
as he conceives. No racional man doch conceire a spontanecns
action, and an indeliberare action to be ail one, every indelibe-
rate