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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 286

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  1. (286)
  2. erary eo all the rules oFriphe Reason, whicli I have learned
  3. Negatires cannor explicare the nature of chings defined. By
  4. chisdetinition, a sonc hach liberey eo ascend into che aire, DC-
  5. couse chere is no outward impedimene cohinder ic, and (0 a
  6. violene act may bea tree act. Just like his de Finit on arehis
  7. instances ofthe liberer ot che mater eo descend donn cheChan.
  8. nell, and a TICK Or a lame mans liberer 1080. The later is an
  9. impocence and noc a porver or a liberer. Theformeris sotar
  10. trombeins a trec act, chac ic is scarce a nacural act. Cerrainly.
  11. ehe prover natural morion ot macer, as oF allheary Bodies, is
  12. eo descend direet Wr downmards corards the center, as we lec in
  13. rain, which falls donn perpendicularly. Thoush ehis DeFar
  14. Froma free act, Which proceeds trom a racional apperire, yer it
  15. is a nacural act, and procceds trom a nacural apperice, and hach
  16. its reason michin in ic selF. SO hath nCE che current ofrhe river in
  17. its Channel, Which mult noc be ascribed eo the proper nacure
  18. Ot the acer, buc cicher to the general order ot cheuniverle,
  19. For che becrer beins and preserracion ofche creacures (other-
  20. Wise che waters hould noc moore in Seas and Rivers asthey
  21. do, buc corerthetace otrhe carch, and possels cheir prover
  22. place Becweenche aire and che carch, accordins corhe degree
  23. OF cheir gravicz.) Or eo an exerinsecal principle, Whilttone
  24. parcicle oF wacer chrustech and Forcech formard anocher, and
  25. FO COmeES A CUTTeHE, Or at least PO comes the current to Be more
  26. impecuous, eo which motion che posirion oFche earch doch
  27. contribure much, boch by restrainins chac Auid body wich ies
  28. banns trom dispertins it selE, and also, by affordins way for a
  29. Fair and ealr descent by ies proclivier. Hlerellsus Cadly chacthe
  30. Water manes liberty to eoover the bantes, becanse there is an ex-
  31. trinsecat impediment, But to ascend up the channel it mants not
  32. liberty, but porver. Wty: Liberey is a pover, iE IE WanE pOVeE
  33. to ascend, is wanes liberer co ascend. Bur hemakes chereason
  34. utiy che water ascends nor up the channel, eo be inerinsecal, and
  35. thereason why ic ascends noc over che bantis eo be extrinsecal,
  36. 25 if chere vere noc a ritins oFche sround up che channel, a5
  37. vellas upchebants, chouxh it denoc (o discernable, nor al-
  38. Wayes (o sudden. The natural apperire oF che water is as much
  39. asainst cheascendins over chebants, a5 che ascendins up che
  40. channel.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 286. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0286?run=74