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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 36

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  1. (36
  2. but hior Realon representeth any thine eo theVill. Y under-
  3. stand no more, thanthe Bictrop understands there may be Liber-
  4. ey in Chilaren, in Beasts, and inanimate Creaturs. For he
  5. scemethro monder ho Childrenmay be lefiat Liberty; ho
  6. Beasts imprisoned may be set at Liberty; and horr a River
  7. may have a freecourse; and saith, what. will he ascribe Li.
  8. berry toinanimare Creatures also e Andthus he thintes hehath
  9. made it clear homNecessier, Spontaneier, and Liberey differ
  10. fromone another. If the Reader find it so. Tam contented.
  11. bFis Necessiey is just suchanscher, a Neccey epon Cup-
  12. poticion, aritins trom che concourle oF all the causes, inclu-
  13. dins che last dictate oF cheunderstandins in realonable Crea-
  14. TATCS, EEC.
  15. The Distop mishe casily have seen, that the Necessicy L
  16. hold, is the same Necessuy that he denies; namely a Necessicr
  17. ofthines future, thatis, an antecedent Necessiry derived from
  18. the very beginnins of time: and that Lput Necessity for an
  19. Impossibility of not beine; and that impossibility as vell as
  20. Possibility arc never truly said, bnt et the future. Ihnoi as
  21. ell ashethat checause roben it is adaquare (as he calleth it)
  22. or entire (as Pcal it) is tocether in time mitb the effect. But
  23. for all thar the Necessiey may be andis betore the effect, as
  24. muchas any Lccessiry ean be. Andthonch he cal il a Ne-
  25. cessey of supposition, it is no more so. than all otber Necessity
  26. is. Thestreburnech necessarity: but not mithont supposition.
  27. that there is fervel put toit. And it burneth the fervel (wbon
  28. it is put toit) necessarily: but it is by supposition, that the or-
  29. dinary course ofnature is net hindred: L’or the fire burnt not
  30. hetbreo Children in the Furnace.
  31. But is chele caules did operare Frcely, or Concinsencly.
  32. il chey miohe havo suspended, or denied their concurrence,
  33. Ox trare concurred alcer anocher manner, chen the effeet Was
  34. noc erulys and ansccedeney necessarr, bur cithertree, Or COn-
  35. EInGCHE.
  36. Lt seems by this he understandeth not mhat these mords Frce
  37. and Concinsene mean. a litrle before he mondred L Bould
  38. atrribute Liberey eo inanimate C reatures, and non be puts
  39. canses amonest thosethines that operate Fixcely. By these cau-

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 36. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0048?run=74