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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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t
ce oF the
prels the
es oE the
nach and
Muscular
verse and
celture ot
and (O Oi
Ily in alE
a Mecha-
on oF che
employed
any such
a Plaim
contrary
Can move
d and un.
ChiS ner
voluntary
MIotion.
e hioodadedo
Mocion, and no Motion can Follon unlels
this suice be derir d, 25 is plain trom hencc,
that cuting che Nerres thac Perre any NTuI-
ele, tho aIl ottier chines continue che
Tame, vet no Mocion vill Follor. And
che ouy Conception e can Form oF vo-
luncarr NIotions, is that the Mind lilce a
otiltul Mnsician Prikes uxon chac Nerve
irtrich conrers animal Spirits eo che MuI-
cle eo be contracted, and ads a frCaLEF
Forec etian che natural eo chenerrous suice
erhereby ic opens ies Pallage into che Ve-
Ticles oF wrtrich the Muscular Fibres Con-
GCt, ertich ic coud noc hare donc by ies
natural POrVer. But this Action oF chC
Mind or WVill uxon chese Animal Spiries
beins altogether unaccouneable siom chc
Lars of Motion, ic is plain chac volun.
carr Morion is altogether immechanical.
And indecd vere ic Mechanical, ic cond
noc be Voluntarr; For whrac ever acts
Mechanically, aes constanels and necel
Carily, and C0 can never aet volunta
rily.