ABSTRACT
Man's mode of thinking is necessarily determined by his manner of being; it must depend oil his natural organization, and the modification his system receives independently of his will. The actions of man are never free; they are always the necessary consequence of his temperament, of the received ideas, of the notions, either true or false, which he has formed to himself of happiness: of his opinions, strengthened by example, forfeited by education, consolidated by daily experience. To be undeceived on the system of his free-agency, man has simply to recur to the motive by which his will is determined, he Mill always find this motive is out of his own controul. The partizans of the system of free-agency appear ever to have confounded constraint with necessity. Man may therefore cease-to be restrained, without, for that reason, becoming a free agent: in whatever manner he acts, he will act necessarily; according to motives by which he shall be determined.
