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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 238

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  1. (238
  2. eo the morions and inAuenees oF chehearenty bodies, Ehe
  3. Ocher co che complexions oFmen. (a) The lum otmy ansver
  4. Was, thac che scars and complerions do incline, buE nOc ac aII
  5. necesticare the WilI. To wtreh all judicious AAronomers and
  6. Physrcians do aNenc. And T. FI. hiro self doch noc dissent From
  7. it. S0 as eo this part there necds no reply.
  8. (b) Buc Whereashementions a great paradox of his ovon, that
  9. there is baraly any one action to the causine of Which COnCUrres NoE
  10. Wharsoever is in rerum natura. Tean buc sinite eo sec wich Whac
  11. ambirion our preacundertakers do affect to be acconnred the
  12. Erat founders ob trange opinions, as il che derisins oFan ill
  13. fronnded Paradox vere as greac an honour as cheinvention ot
  14. ehe needle, or the discorery of ehenem WVorid. Andcorhis
  15. Paradox in Parricular, I meddle noc mich nacural actions. De-
  16. cause che lubieet ob my ditcourleis moral liberes; Bucifhe in-
  17. cend nor only chekinds ofchines, buc erery indiriduall crea-
  18. cure, and noc onelu in nacural buc roluncary actions, I desire
  19. cokron hou Presten Jobn, Or che Greac Mosol, or cheKins oF
  20. China, or any onc of lo many millions of cheir subjects do con-
  21. cur comy mricins oEchis reply. IFcley do noc amons lus ocher
  22. speculations concernins ehiis marrer, I hope he will siveus
  23. Tome restrictions. It vere hard eo makre allche Nerroes aC-
  24. cellary eo alliche murthers chacare commitred in Purove.
  25. Aimadrersions upontheBistiops
  26. Roply. Numb. XX. I.
  27. Flere is not mueh inthis pare of bis Repty; thatneedeth Ani-
  28. madversion. B,t I. must observo mhereche. (aith.
  29. (a) TThe sum ofmy ansiver wasechae che Scars and
  30. complections doincline, buc norar all necelticarothe Will.
  31. Fle ansvereth nothine ar al rome, mho artribure not the nocessi-
  32. ration of the Will torhe Stars and Complections, bat to the ac-
  33. crecate of alrhines rocether chat are in motion. I do not say ehat
  34. the Stars or Complectionsof themselves do incline mon eo Wil; but
  35. axhenmenaro inclined. Imest say that thnt inclination, Was ne-
  36. cessivated by some causes or other.
  37. ld
  38. don
  39. Wa
  40. (oni
  41. A
  42. PerV
  43. B

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 238. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0238?run=74