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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 61

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The machine reads it as

  1. Cards
  2. 1a
  3. Lara
  4. phere i
  5. sponit
  6. mlen
  7. dise,
  8. hich in
  9. Thonet
  10. FhIOM
  11. eat, be
  12. is not
  13. ecedent
  14. itation
  15. inine
  16. done
  17. cb ne
  18. berated
  19. de least
  20. e0d, M
  21. thines
  22. Ind mil
  23. but nit
  24. and delr
  25. bese actio
  26. aseribu
  27. 11
  28. Droeu
  29. sidera
  30. anord
  31. necessi
  32. s
  33. pus1
  34. MHEl,
  35. (O2)
  36. orh that Forses, Doce5, and other brute beasts do demurre
  37. oftentimes apon the nuy theyarecotabe. The Forse reciring
  38. From some strange ficure hesces, and ermine on acainto avoid the
  39. spuro And mhat cts. duh man ihac a: liberateth, but one
  40. vehile procced comard action, an ther rohilo rerirefrom it, ac
  41. ihohope os crea er cord darres him, er the fear of creater evill
  42. driveshim aCsild miybe se vonnq as eod, all which it does
  43. miehose al deliberaim butchat is but tisit chance to behurt be
  44. doins somenhat, or sill ic beof ase to anderstand rhe rod3 for
  45. ehe actims mhereinhe hathon ea check, Ballbe d liberated on
  46. iho sccondrim. Fors and mad Mlen m nifestlu d liberate no
  47. less tban the visest Men, thonchth. y makee not se e00d a choise,
  48. cheimaces of thine, beine by diseases altered. For Bees and
  49. Spiders, is hehad solinle ro de astobe a spectatorof their asti-
  50. ons, he montd have confessednot onty Flection, but al(o Arr
  51. Prudence, and Polier in them, very near equal to that of
  52. Manteind. OfBees Ariltorle sayes, their life is civit. Eleis
  53. deccived, if hethinte any spontansons action aster once beine
  54. checteed in it, differs from an action vobuntary and eloctive, for
  55. eventhe serring of a mans foot in theposture of mallinq. andthe
  56. action of ordixary eating mas once d. liberaced, hom and when
  57. it Bould be done; Andthonchit aftermard becom casie and ba-
  58. birnat, soas to be dine mithont forc. thoneht, yet that dies not
  59. hinder. butthat ebe act is voluntary, and proceods from electi–
  60. on. Se also are therastreft actions of choleriete porsons volun-
  61. tarr and apon deliberation; for who is there but very zonne chil
  62. dren thathas not considered, when and bem far ho onght on safely
  63. may, striho or revile. Seoine thenhe acrees mith me that sueb
  64. actions are nececessatod, and ehe faney of those that de them is
  65. determined eothe actionsther de, il follons ont of his onn dictrine,
  66. thatthe diberty of election does not take amay the necessity of e-
  67. lecting this or tbat individualthine. Andihus onc ofhis Ar-
  68. rumenes fehes acainst anortier
  69. D.
  70. Bhare parily seen berore hom 2. FI. hath coined a
  71. it at el liberti, anem hind ot necelles,a
  72. rkin dacion, andnom in ehis lectiona nem tind oF
  73. Ot

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 61. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0073?run=74