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" termination fliall conftantly follow the fame ftate of mind and 



" the fame view of things, and it could not be poffible for the 



" fame determination to have been other wife than it has been, is, 



" or is to be, unlefs the laws of nature had been fuch, as that 



" though both the flate of the mind and the views of things were 



" the fame, the determination might or might not have taken 



" place. But in this xafe the determination mud have been an 



*' effect without a caufe, becaufe in this cafe, as in that of a 



" balance, there wotild have been a change of fituation without 



" any previous change of circumftances, and there cannot be any 

 " other definition of an effe(5l without a caufe." 



To this reafoning I reply, that the laws of nature, with refpedl 

 to intelledlual agents, are fuch, that though the flate of mind 

 and the views of things be exadlly the fame, one and the fame 

 determination might not have taken place in the cafes mentioned 

 Nos. 13 and 15, and yet whether the fame or a different deter- 

 mination take place it will not be an effedl without a caufe ; for 

 as in thofe cafes different motives or final caufes, equally attracflive, 

 are fuppofed to occvir, which ever of them the mind purfues, its 

 determination will not want a final caufe. The comparifon of a 

 balance, which will remain in aequilibrio when the fcales are 

 loaded with equal weights, is inapplicable, as the balance does 

 not adl, but is aded upon, whereas the mind is evidently poffefTed 

 of an adive power of purfuing a propofed end. ^ 



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