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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 40

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  1. C4
  2. Le blameth. And mhere he sayesour Willsare in our porver
  3. he seesnot thathe speates absurdly; forhe oueht ro(ay, tbe
  4. Will is the Pomer; and threnzb ienorance derecteth ihe same
  5. fant in SC. ABCin, Whosarth, our Will Boulanot be a Will
  6. at all, is it vere not in our pover; that is to say, is it ere
  7. not in our will.
  8. E. This is che Deliet oF ail mankind, Which We HaVCNOE
  9. lcarred ErOI OME TW: OrS. Buc is imprinced in aur heares by
  10. NTatnCe, _C.
  11. Phis piece of Eloguence is used by Cicero in bis defence of
  12. Milo, 1o prove it larsul for aman to resist force with Force
  13. or 10 lcep him elf from billins; which the Bictrop (thinkine
  14. himseif ableto mahe that which proves onc chine prove any
  15. Thine) hatheranstare dinto Enclist, and broueht intothis place
  16. toprove Frec- will. Je is true, very fem have lcarned from
  17. Tucors, that a manis not free toilt; nor do they find it
  18. much in BookS. That they find in Books, that which ihe Po-
  19. ets chant intheir Theaters, andthe Shepheards in the Moun-
  20. tains, that whichthe Pastors teach inthe Churehes, and thC
  21. Doctors in the Vniversities, andthat mhichthe commonpeopte
  22. inthe Aarbets, andall mankind in the Whole Worla ad assent
  23. anto, is the same that lassent unio, namely; that a manbath
  24. freedome to do if hewill; but whether he hath Ereedoine 10
  25. Will, is a Question which it seems neither the Biltrox nor
  26. they ever thoueh on.
  27. S Noman Blamech sire For burning Ciries, nor caxech poy-
  28. COn FOF desroying MCM, _C.
  29. Here acainheis uponhis areuments from Blame, nhich L
  30. have ansmered before: and me do as much blame themas me
  31. domen; for me say fire hath donc hurt, andche poyson hach
  32. Killed a man, as mell as ve saythe man hath done uniustly:
  33. bul ve donot seclto be revensed of the fire and of poyson, be-
  34. canse me cannot make tbem aste forciveness, as me moulamate
  35. men to do whentheyburt us; sothat theblamine of theone and
  36. the other thatis, the declarine of the hut or evill action donc
  37. bythem, is the same in both; but the malice ot man is onely
  38. acainst man.
  39. No mans Cins in doins chose chinzs Wtich he covidnoc
  40. ctruI.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 40. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0052?run=74