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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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the Necdle rouched ich the LOad- Rone vere Freeto poine,
cicher comardscheNorch, or cowardschesouch, because chere
is noc a Barricado in ies Way cohinder it; yea, he cues oHche
libertu from inmard impediments also: As it an FlaWwk Were aE
liberes eo Ay when her winss are plucked, buc nocten chey
arctied. And Pohe maken libenty from exrrinsecat impediments
eo be complereliberer; Cohe ascribes liberry co bruic Beass, and
liberty eo Rivers, and b) consequence makes Bealts and ERIvers
eo be capeabie oF sin and punissiment. ACACedIY. Xerxes, wtio
caused the Hellesponc co De beacen wich (o mino sripes, WWas OF
chis opinion. Lastiy, Y. FI. bis reason chacit is ustome, or
mant ofabilicy. or nlicer cemhich makes a m InSncesve oiber-
riso, is buc a begems ot chac Which hechould D ove. Ochier
men contider as seriousl an himselE, wich as nnch iudgemene
4: him (elF, wich lese prejudice chan himselF, anel vec chiey can ap-
prehend eo luchlense os etiele words Wouldhehare ochermen
Fersnchac cher ee hees Brasonsintie Rir, because he actiems
contilenesu clache sccsthem, and monders irtry ochersare (0
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caltical, or imasinacire cecloa. ow can a manimarine any
thine en becin mithont ac use, or ij it Bo. Id hecin Withont a cause,
rhy it Bonla becin at this eme racher than at thar time? IC
Paichi ervels, nochirs ean besin vichont a caule, chatis to be, Buc
it may becin re alt oFic selE. vichour auy ocher caule. Nochins
can besin wichour a cause, bue mans chiuss max besin, and do
begin wichoue neceltarz causes. A Erce cause may asvell choose
his cime ertien he will bexin, as a necessary cause be decermined
extrinsecally when ic must Begin. And alchongh tree effects
cannot beforetold, because cher ace noc certainsy predecermi-
ned in cheir causes, vec itren thetree causes do decermine
chemselres, cher are of as preac certainty ascheocher. A5
When Ilec a Bellringins. P can conceire che cause oFis a5 WelI
Why ic rines no, asi knon cheinterposicion ot checarehto
Be checause ofthe Felipse ofche Moon, or the moltcertain
Occurrent in chie nature oF chin85.
(K) And non choc Thare ansivered T. II. his ArgumenES
dramn trom che prirace conceptions of men concernins che
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