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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 67

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The machine reads it as

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  2. dec
  3. de
  4. ibecd
  5. Il
  6. onvenien
  7. Aa WO
  8. De lucco
  9. nould co
  10. eneforI
  11. imselt.
  12. mpare i
  13. vil 5 HC
  14. realicle
  15. doct Fee
  16. Doiible le
  17. consesse
  18. iCOn
  19. Ident
  20. Ir
  21. al et
  22. Octele
  23. uhen
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  26. mad H
  27. aTC WBI
  28. letsnilet
  29. clearis,
  30. sed
  31. 6y
  32. realon, de deliberere or ule reason, implies a coneradicti-
  33. On. Buehis chiefest contidence is in his Bees and Spiders.
  34. of rbose actions, (he Caich) is T had beon a spectator, l moisld
  35. have confessed, not only Flection, bur also Arr, Prudence.
  36. Policy. very near equal co that ef Mantind, Wwhose life, as A.
  37. rictocle saich, is civill. Truly I hare concemplaced cheir acti-
  38. onsmany cimes, and hare becn much catien wieh cheir curi
  39. ousworks, vec my choustes did noc restect (o much upon
  40. ehem, as upon cheir mater, wrho is (ec magnus in maenis,
  41. chacheisnoc, minor in parvis; 50 sreac in greae chinss.
  42. chache is noc less in (mall chings. Les, Phare scen chole
  43. Tilliest oF creatures, and Pecins cheirrare works, lhave
  44. seen enouxh co conture all che bold Faced Acheists oF cHIS
  45. asc, and cheir hellimtr blasphemies. I scechem, bue l prai-
  46. Ced chemarraillons mortis cFC0d, and admired chac srCAE
  47. and Frst incellect, who hach boch adapred cheir organs, and
  48. decermined cheir Fanciesto chese particular works. I Was
  49. noc (0 simpleto alcribe chose Raricies co cheir omn inven-
  50. cion, whichIhnea to proceed trom a meer instinct oFNa
  51. cure. Inall ocher chines cheyarethe dulles OE creatureS.
  52. Nacuralists rrire oF BCco, thac cheir Fancy is impertect, nOE
  53. diltinet from cheir common sense, spread over cheir whole
  54. bod. and only perceirins chinss prelent. When Arist
  55. orte callschem Policical or Sociable Creacures, he did noc
  56. incendicreally chaccher lired a ciril lite, buc accordins eo
  57. an Analoey, because chey do such chines by instinet, astru-
  58. ly Policical Creatures dooue ot judsemene. Nor WwhenL
  59. read in SC. Ambrose, Ot cheir Flexacones Or Sexangular
  60. celles, did Tcheretore conclude, chac chey Were Mathema-
  61. ticians. Nor when L read in Crespet, chac chey invoke
  62. Cod cotheiraid, when ther 80 ouc ofcheir Hires, bend.
  63. inscheirchislis in form oFa crosse, and bowins chemletres;
  64. did Icheretore chink, char ehis vas an aet ofreligious pie-
  65. ex, Orthac chey vero capable ot Theolocical vertues, Whom
  66. Isee in alLocher chines in which cheir Fancies arenot deter-
  67. mined, cobeche silliest oF creacures, srangers noc onty ro
  68. riphereason, bucco all resemblances ot it.
  69. Sevenchly, concernins chole actions mhich are done

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 67. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0079?run=74