Author: William KingPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265674154
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Excerpt from An Essay on the Origin of Evil, Vol. 2 But if he intended that thefe Motives ibonld be underflood to rule and direét the Will abfolntely and irrefiftibly in certain Cafes - That they have fueh a neeefl'ary influence on the Mind, that it can never be determin'd without or againfl them in (hort, that the Soul of Man has not a pbyfical Power of willing independent of. And confequently indifi'erent to all Perceptions. Realons and Motives whatfoever which the general drift of his Difcourfe feems to aii'ert, particularly 5. 47, 48, go. Where he confounds the Determination of the judgmentwith the exertion of the felf-moving Power through out. As alfo 5. 52. Where he afl'erts, That all the Liberty we have, or are capable of, lies in this, that we can jh/peml our Deliresl and hold our Wills undetermin'd, till we have examin'd the Good and Evil of what we define; what (old lows after that follows in a Chain of Confeqnenees link'd one to another, all depending on the lalt Determination of the Judgment? And when he (peaks of Caufes not in our {owenéperating for the molt part fir'a'bb on the Will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.