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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 133

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The machine reads it as

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  13. 33
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  15. same inconveniences follon net the dictrine os Necessiy any
  16. more than tberfollom this eruch, wtracloever allDe, Mall De.
  17. rrhich all men must confess; The same also follomethuponthis;
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  19. in such time and maneer as he hach forebenonn il. It is there-
  20. fore evident chat these inconvenience sare notrationally de duced
  21. frem ibose Tenets. Arainit is a truth manif est io alt men,
  22. that it is not in a mans pover to day, to choose rhat xill he
  23. Balhaveto morrom, or an bover, or any time afcer. Inter-
  24. venine occasions, business, (mhich the Bistro calls tristes)
  25. Tristes of hich the Bistrop maketh here a great businessto
  26. chance theWril. No man can say nhat he will de to morrom
  27. anlesshe foreknom (mhich noman can) hat sall happenbefore
  28. tomorrom. Andthisbeins the substance of my opinion, it must
  29. needsbe that mhen he deducerh fromit, that Ciansells. Aris,
  30. Armes, Aredisines, Fcacbers, Praisc, Prayer, and Piety, are
  31. invain; thar bis deductionis false, aud his raciocination falla-
  32. cy. Andthonch. L need make no other ansimer to all that bc can
  33. object acainst me, yet IBall veremarte out the causes of his se-
  34. verat Parologismes.
  35. Thole Laves (hesaith) are unjust and cyrannical, wtich
  36. do preseribe chines absolucis impossible co bc done, and pu-
  37. nich menfor noc doins ofchem. In nhich moras thisis one
  38. absurditu that aLan can beunjust, for alt Lamesare Divine or
  39. Civit, neicher of. which ean benniust. Of the first there is no
  40. donbr. And as for Civil Laves they are made by every man
  41. that is subjest tothem, because every one of them consentethto
  42. the placins of the Lexistative Pomer. Another isthis in the
  43. Tame mords, ebat he supposeth there may be Lamesthat are not
  44. Trrannical; for is he that maketh chem have the soveraien Po-
  45. ver, they may be Recal, but not T grannical; if T grant fieni-
  46. fie not Kinc, as he thintes it doth not. Another is inthe same
  47. mords, chaca P. aW may preleribe chinss abColucely impossible
  48. in chemselres eo bedone. When he sayes imposble inchem-
  49. Telres, he understands noc whachimself means. Impossible in
  50. ehemselres are contradictions onely, astobe, and not tobe, at
  51. sbe same time, which ehe Divines say is not possible toCod. AI
  52. OtBer

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 133. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0145?run=74