The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 241

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2. ehe fire wich ehe chree Chilaren. Je is rioeche Arengeh oF thie
3. ind, buc che lighenels oF the chass, which cansechic to be
4. blonn away. Oueward objects donoc impole a moral, much
5. lels a Phssical necestier, ehey may be danserous, buc cannoc be
6. dettructi eto erue liberes.
7. T. TI.
8. PFiraly, he dispareth acainst che opinionos ehemthat say. ex-
9. ternal ob ects presented to men of such and such temperatures,
10. domale their actions necessary. And sares, the poder that luch
11. objects have over us, procecd fromour omnfault; Dut that is
12. nothine rothe purpose, if such fault of ours proceedeth from causes,
13. not in our omn porver. And therefore chat opinion may hold rrue
14. for al this ansver: Purtherhe saith, Prayer, Fastine, 5c.
15. may alier our habirs. T is true, but mhenther de so, they are
16. causes of the contrary habit, and mate it necessary; as the for-
17. mer habit had been necessary, is Prayer, Fastine, c. had not
18. been. Besides me are not mooved, nor disposed 10 prayer, or any
19. ot er action but by outmard objects, as pions company, codly
20. Dreachers, or somethine equivalent. Trirdly, hesaith, a resolved
21. mind is not easilu surprised. As the mind of WIYNTCS, mho mhen
22. others wepi, healone Wept not. Andos the Fhilosopherthat ab-
23. sainedfromstrilins, because hefound nimself aney. Andos
24. himthar poured out Le Warer when he mas chirsty; And the lite.
25. Such thines confesshave, or may have been done, and de prove
26. enely that it as not necessary for UIyDes thento mecp, nor for ibe
27. Philosophertostrike, nor for chat oiher man to drinte, but it does
28. not prove chat it mas not nece ary for UlyIles i’en to abstain, as he
29. did Trom mecpine, nor the Philosopherto abstainas he did from
30. strikeino: Nor the otber man eo forbear drinkins. And yet that mas
31. the r ine he ouche rohave proved.
32. Lastly, he consesseth, that the disposition os objects may be
33. dance ons r0 liberry, bur cannot be destructive. T0 whicb L
34. ansver, tis impossible; For, liberey is never in any other dancer
35. thancobe lost. Andis it cannot be lost, Which he conseseth, L may
36. inser it can be inno danser at all.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 241. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0241?run=74