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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: were it merely a word used incautiously in the heat of debate; but as it is the exact expression of the views of that school, I am justified in making what use of it I choose. We certainly fancy we sometimes resist, and resist pretty steadily too?so steadily as eventually to overcome the temptation. It is all a mistake, say our friends; there is no resisting the circumstances that result in volition I You see a man coming out of a public house perfectly drunk. There was no help for it; he could not resist. Poor fellow, he was the victim of antecedents and consequents. Don't blame him. Blame him You cannot blame him if your antecedents do not produce blame. You cannot help it if they do. Your judgment of his drunkenness is no affair of yours or his; it is the necessary effect of the circumstances that have resulted in volition Mr. Bradlaugh is here a Secularist leader and a defender of their cause. But why here '? Not because he has thought out the matter carefully for himself, and has determined to cast in his lot with theirs. Not so; it has been all determined, not by him, but for him, in the chain of causation. According to my friend's teaching, he has no more power to be aught but an Atheist than I have to be aught but a Theist. No praise to him, no blame to me. We are what we are, because by no personal possibility could we have been otherwise. I do not fancy it can be a pleasant thought for Mr. Bradlaugh that he never does, but is always done. But that is the fundamental principal of Necessitarianism; and as he must be a Necessitarian, being an Atheist, he has no help for it. Necessitarians, however, acknowledge a difference between physical and mental causation. Professor Bain writes: ? The speciality of voluntary action as compared with the powers of the inanimat...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217045896 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217045898 |
| Weight | 0.32 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 90 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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