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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 243

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  1. (243)
  2. Another Branch oF mine ansiver Was, ehat a resolvedand
  3. prepared mind is able eo resist boch che apperibiliey ot ob.
  4. jects, and the unruline(s oF PaCtiOnS; ASI Cemed By exam
  5. Ples. (e) He ansivers thac Iprore E Tysses Was nornecesica-
  6. red co uccp, nor the Philolopher co srike, buc I do noc prove
  7. chac chiey vere noc necesticared co forbear. He saith erue.
  8. J am noc nou prorins, buc antivering. Vet my ansiver doch
  9. sufticiently prore chac which P incend. Thac cheracional wil
  10. hrach pover, boch co Aeishe chemost apperible objects, and
  11. to concrol che mostunruly pactions. Wvhen hehach eiven a
  12. elear Colution co chole proots ihich Phare produced, then it
  13. Will becimme For him to cry For more work.
  14. Lastly, Whereas I Cay, chac ourward objects may be dange
  15. rous, buc cannoc be destructire to crue liberey. Ie cacchech
  16. ac ic, and (f) objects, chac liberey is in no danger, but ro be lost.
  17. but Tsay, it cannoc be lost, therefore (he infers) that it is in no
  18. danser at all. Tantver; Firut, chac liberey is in more danser
  19. eo be abuled ehan to bc loct. Mony more men do abuse cheie
  20. rirs chanlolechem. Secondly, liberer is in danser likemise t0
  21. be meatiened or diministred, as whenic is clossed by vicious
  22. habies contracted by our selres, and vec ic is noc corally lok.
  23. Thirdly, choush liberer cannot becotally los ouc ofthe morid
  24. vec ic mas becotally loct ro chis or thac parricular man, a5t0
  25. the exercile ofic. Reason istheroot ofliberer, and choupt
  26. nochins be morenacuralco a manthan reason, vec mans by
  27. excess oEctud, or by continuil purmandirine, or by lome ex-
  28. crarasane pastion, which cher hare chericted in chemselves.
  29. or by dorins 100 much apon lome affected object, dobe.
  30. come very lores, and deprire chemselres ot the ule oFrea-
  31. son, and consequenely or Liberer. And wten chebenetie
  32. oE liberes is noc chus universallr lost, vec ic may belostre-
  33. spectirely eo chis or thac particuler occatron. AS he Who
  34. mates choise oF a bad wise, hath lost his Former liberey 10
  35. chose a Boodonc.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 243. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0243?run=74