CHAPTER X. 



A PHYSICAL THEORY OF MORAL FREEDOM. 



[The present chapter is an expansion of a paper with the 

 same title, contributed by the writer to the proceedings of the 

 Victoria Institute.] 



IN the foregoing chapter, we have considered the 

 question of the relation of the human Will to the 

 Divine Power and Foreknowledge, as seen in the 

 light thrown on it by the greatest of the Apostles of 

 Christ. We have now to consider the same human 

 Will in its relation to the laws of matter and of purely 

 mechanical force. 



John Stuart Mill has quoted from some unnamed 

 writer perhaps himself that " on all great subjects 

 much remains to be said." It is, however, likely that 

 he would have made an exception of those subjects 

 which are contemptuously called metaphysical by 

 that Positivist school whereof he was in his time the 

 ablest English exponent ; perhaps he would have said 

 that they are partly solved and partly proved to be 

 insoluble, and that on this question of Freedom and 



