The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 148
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- ehat that whieh hediscoursenh here, is not onty to ansmer me,
- hnc also tosatisfre himsel, and saith.
- oThough ic Denoc urged by him, vet ldo achnomledee,
- chac l fnd lome improper and analosical remards and pu-
- nistimenes, used co brure bealts, as the Hluncer remards his
- 105, ec.
- Por my part Jam t00 dull to perveave the difference be-
- eveenthose remards used ro brute beasts, and those that are
- used to men. IF ther be not properly called remards and pu-
- nistments let him sive themtheir proper name. Et may be he
- ill say he has done ic in callins them annalogical, yet for any
- thine ihac can be understood thereby, be misht have called
- ehem Parasosical, or Typical, or Topicalis he had pleased.
- Te adds further, that vhereas he had said, that tbe action of
- Bees aud Spiders vere done withont consultation, by meerin-
- stinct ofnature, and by a determination of their fancies, L
- missaleadee bim, and say hemade their indivianall Actions
- necessary. J have onely this to ansver that secine he
- sayes, that by instinet of nature their fancies vere determined
- 10 speciat hinds of mores, E might justly inferre they vere de-
- termined every one of themtosome more, and every morte is
- an individual action. for akind oF work in the general is no
- morke. Bet these their individual actions be saith are con-
- rinsene, and cheretore nocnececlarr; which is no cood cox-
- sequence: for if he mean by conrinsene that vhich has no
- cause, hespeabethnoras a Christian, but maketh a Deity of
- Forinne, wbich I verily think be dothnot. But if he mean
- byit, that mhereof henoWethnot the cause, the consequenee
- is naneht.
- The means nhereby Setring. dogs, and C. oy. ductes, and P a-
- rars are taneht to do what theydo, is by cheir backs by cheir
- Bellies, by cherod, oc by chemorsell, Whichhave indced a
- straddow, or relemiblance otremards and punistimenes. BuF
- We calie chemord here proveriy, noc as ic is uled by vulsar
- ploxle, bucas ic is uled by Dirines, and Philolophers, ec.
- Does notthe Bictrop lenom that ibc Belly hath tanghe Poets,
- and Flistorians, and Divines. and Philosophers. and Arrifi.
- cerstheir severat Aris, asvellas Parrats: Donot men do
- their duty mich recardrotheirbactes, totheirnects, and to
- their
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 148. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0160?run=74