A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A few footnotes have been supplied where I thought they would assist the ordinary reader, or put him on his guard. Some of the writers referred to in the text were familiar enough to eighteenth-century readers, but they are now fallen dim; and Collins, writing as a Deist, and naturally anxious to repel the then terrible suspicion of Atheism, as well perhaps as to enmesh the theologers in their own net, rather over pressed his advantages from the free-will tendency of ancient atheists and the necessitarian tendency of Stoic philosophers and Christian divines. Other reasons for giving the present oday reader a little help will appear in the footnotes themselves. I have only to add that such footnotes are marked with my initials.

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