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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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6. 32. Bur to consider this mistaken part oF Liberty righe, Would art
one be a Chanselins, because he is leis determined, by rise Considerations.
than a erisc Nan. Is ie orth che Name OF Erccdom to be at liberty t0
play che F0ol, and dram Shame and Misery uxon a ManS sclE: IE wanc oF
restrainero chuse, or to do the worle, De Liberer, true Liberer, madmten
and FoOIS are the onIY Frce men: Dut Vet, P think, no Body would
chuse eo be mad For the Patse of such Liberer, but he that is mac
alreadr.
5. 33. Bur though che preserence ot the Mind be alivars decermined by
the appearance ot Crood, greater Cood; vet the Person Wrhohas the Por
ex, in Which alone consilts libertr to act, or not to act accordine to luet
preserenco, is nevertheless trec, such derermination abridges nor That POW.
er. HIC chat has his Chains bnocked oH, and the Prison- doors set open 10
tim, is perfectlr at liberey, because he may cither o0 or Cay, a5 he best
litres; thouoh his preserenee be derermined to stay by the darknels oF the
NigHE, or illness ofthe Weather; Or Want ot ottier LOcoinz. HC Ceales
nOFeO Be free; though that which at that time appears to him the orca-
ter Grood absolutelr determines his preserenee, and matces him stay in His
Prison. Tharerather made use of the Word Preference than Choice, t0
exprelsthe aet ol Volition, becaule choice is ot a more doubttul lignifica
tion and borderins more uxon Desire, and (0 is reterred co things re-
more; Whereas Volition, or the AC oF Willine, signities nothing property,
but the actual producins ot Lomethino that is voluntarr.
8. 34. The next thins to be considered is, IF our Wills be determined
by Cio0d, Ilou it comes to pass thac Mens Wills carry them so contrarily,
and consequently some ol them co wrhat is sivil: And eo this I PaY, chaF
the various and contrary choices, hat Men matre in the Wortd; doc not
argue, chat they do noc all chuse Oood; Dut that che same thins is nOE
fo0dto everr Man. Nere all the Concerns oF Man terminated in this
Lise; irhy one pursued Scudy and Rnomledse, and another Plawtins
and Ftencins; ertr one chose Furury and Debaucherr, and another So-
brieer and Riches, ould not be, becaule everr onc ot thele did not pur-
suc hisomn (Tappiness; but because their PTappinels lar in different thines:
And theretore eiras a righe Ansiver of chePhysician to hisPatient, chathad
Sore Fyes. IF rou have more Plcature in the Paste of Winc, than in the
ule ot vour Sistt, Winc is so0dfor you: but il the Pleasure of Secins De
greater to vou, chantharot Drinkins, Wine is naugHE.
6. 35. TheMrind has a different relictr, as Welt asthe Palate; and vou
will as truictessy endeavour to delioht all Men with Riches or Glory.
(rrhich y et lome Men place their Flappinels in,) as zou rould to
fatissie all Mens Punser irh Cheese or Lobsters; Wrtrich, thougl
very agrecable and delicious tare to lone, are to others extremet
nauseous and oftentire: And mans People mould ith Reason preser
the sripins of an hungry Belly, to ehiole Distres, irtrich are a Peast
Io Others. HTence it was, Ichink, thac che Philosophers oF old did
in vain enquire, Whether summum bonum consisted in Riches, or
Boditr Deliohes, or Virtue, or Contemplation: And they mioht have a5
reasonabls dispured, Whether che best Relist vere to betound in Apples,
PlumbS, OT NuES; and have divided themselres into Sects upon it. FOr
25 plealant Fastes depend not onthe things themselres, but their aorecq.
bleness to this or that particular Palate, Wherein there is great variety:
Sothe grearest Fappinels consilts, in the havins those chines which pro-
duce the crearest Pleasure, and the absence of thole irhich cause any di
Aurbance, aer pais, irhich 10 disterent Ben ace vecys ditterene ctiime 
CMaP.
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