The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 142

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1. (142)
2. bichare instrumental e0 his mell. beine. But ebis advantace
3. is not a matier of se ereat honour, but that a mon may speate
4. neglicently of it mithont offence. And for the dominion that a
5. manbath over beasts, hesaith ic is los in pare forche(inof
6. man, because chestrongest Creacures as Lions, and BeaES,
7. hare michdramn ebeir obedience; bue che most proticable
8. and uletul Creacures, as Shcep and Oxen, doin lome de
9. free, retaincheir obedience. L mould aste rhe Bilhop in mbat
10. consisteththe dominion of man, over a Lionor a Bear. Is it in
11. an obligationos promise, or of aebt: Tharcannothe; for they
12. haveno sense of debt or dury. And Tthinte he nill not say, that
13. they have received a command eo ober him from authority. It
14. resteth therefore that the dominion of man consists inthis, that
15. men aretoohard for Lions and Bears, because thouch a Zion or
16. a Bear bestroncer thanaman, uet thestrencth, and art, and
17. Specially the Leagneine ana Societies ofmen, are a creater po-
18. ver, than theuncoverned streneth of anruly Beasts. In this it
19. is that consisteth this dominion of man; and for the same reason
20. Whenahunery Zion meeteth an unarmed man in a desert, the
21. Lion haththe dominion over the man, is that of man over Lions,
22. er over Shecep and Oxen, may be called dominion hich properiy
23. it cannot; nor can it besaid that Sheep and Oxen do othermisé
24. obeyus, than they rvould de a Zion. And is e have dominion
25. over Sheep and Oxen, me excreise it not as dominion, but as
26. hostility; for ve leop them onely to labour, and tobe lill d and
27. devoured byus; Cothat Lions and Bears mouldbe as cood Ma-
28. terstorhem as me are. By this sort passaze of bis, concernine
29. Dominion and Dbedience, Lhave noreason to expect a very
30. Brend ansver fromhim, tomp Teriachan.
31. Tho next branch ofhis antver, concerns Consulcari-
32. Ons, Which (Caith be) are not superfinons, thouch all thines
33. comero pass necessurity, becanse they are the canse which doth
34. necessicare the effcct, and theneans to brine it topass.
35. Flis Replytorhis is, that he hach ewed Cufticienely, chat
36. reason dochnoc decermine chewill Phylcally, ec. Yf not
37. Thysically, howrhen? Asbe hathtold us in another place, MO-
38. ralIV. B et rhat it is to determine a thine Morally, no man
39. livine understands. Ldeubt vot but be had therefore the Willto
40. vrito

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 142. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0154?run=74