134 JSSSAYS SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL. 



VII. 

 SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WILL. 



Freedom of the Will. 



(a) As a practical question. (j3) As a speculative 

 question. 



(a) As A PRACTICAL QUESTION it is taken for 

 granted that man is an apxn Trpa&wv, that he can 

 choose or reject. No arguments for this are 

 advanced till it is denied, and it is never denied 

 till we try to fit in the fact of freedom with the 

 general view of the world and God. It rests 

 upon 



(i.) The consciousness that we are free, which 

 is never denied even by those who explain it 

 away. 



(ii.) The feeling of responsibility varying con- 

 comitantly with the consciousness of freedom. 



(iii.) The transference of this to others in the 

 vulgar notion of moral desert. 



(iv.) The practice of legislators and of the 

 judicial system. 



(]3) AS A SPECULATIVE QUESTION. How are 

 we to reconcile freedom with what we know of 



