/: AND J/.l.V i;i;, 



necep- inly full oil to fri_ ,tK-r. He 



.lit it untrue ev -hut In- tiiil not f-ar its 



. II ii the contra 



Analogy," tl ;us human condilc' 



the two the.-rie< of free- will and necessity would come to 



-nine in the end. 



\Vh, :it hy free- will? Does it imply the power 



of producing events without antecedents of st 

 it \\eiv. u|ioii a Creative tour of or. - withou 



impulse from within or from without: -consider 



int. If there be absolutely or relatively no i 

 why a tree .should fail, it \\ill not fall; and if th- 

 ahsolutcly or relatively no reason why a man should act, he- 

 will not act. It is true that the unite*! f this 

 assembly could not persuade me that I ha\ : this 



nt, the power to lift my arm if I wished to do so. 

 Within thin range the conscious freedom of my \\ill cannot 

 he (|iifstioned. Hut what uhout the origin of the " w 

 Are we, or are we not, complete masters of the circum- 



M which create our wishes, UK. fives and tendencies to 

 action:' A<!e<|uate reflection will, I think, prove that we 

 are not. What, for example. ha\e I had to do with the 

 generation and development of that which some will oon- 



niy total being, and others a most potent factor of 

 my total being the living, speaking organism which now 

 addresses you? As stated at the beginning of this dis- 

 course, my" physical and intellectual textures were woven 

 fr me, n.t //// me. Processes in the conduct or regulation 

 of which 1 had no share have math? me what 1 am. Here, 

 smvlv, if anywhere, we are as clay in the hands of the 



f delusions to suppose that we 



c.me into this world as sheets of white paper on which the 

 age can write anything it likes, making us good CM 

 noble ! met < pleases. The age can stunt, 



promote, or pervert pre-existent capacities, hut it . 

 create them. The worthy Boberl u\ven, who saw'in 



ices the great molders of human 

 acter, was obi.. <t bis docii; 



tan himself one of the circumstances. It is a- 

 as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our 



icritanee? IM (Mir euiirt-* of law, , 



;t is a question u MO has been commit til 



