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volitions on the occasion of the different movements, and you 

 will on this hypothesis construct a man. 



" But would this man be free ? Can the feeling of our liberty, 

 this feeling which is so clear and so distinct and so vivid as to 

 persuade us that we are the authors of our actions, be conciliated 

 with this hypothesis 1 If it removes the difficulty which attends 

 the conception of the action of the soul on the body, on the other 

 hand it leaves untouched that which meets us in endeavouring 

 to conceive the action of the body on the soul." 



But if Leibnitz, Jonathan Edwards, and Hartley 

 men who rank among the giants of the world of 

 thought could see no antagonism between the doc- 

 trine under discussion and Christian orthodoxy, is it 

 not just possible that smaller folk may be wrong in 

 making such a coil about " logical consequences " ? 

 And, seeing how large a share of this clamour is raised 

 by the clergy of one denomination or another, may 

 I say, in conclusion, that it really would be well if 

 ecclesiastical persons would reflect that ordination, 

 whatever deep-seated graces it may confer, has never 

 been observed to be followed by any visible increase 

 in the learning or the logic of its subject. Making a 

 man a Bishop, or entrusting him with the office of 

 ministering to even the largest of Presbyterian 

 congregations, or setting him up to lecture to a 

 Church congress, really does not in the smallest 

 degree augment such title to respect as his opinions 

 may intrinsically possess. And, when such a man 

 presumes on an authority which was conferred upon 

 him for other purposes, to sit in judgment upon 

 matters his incompetence to deal with which is 

 patent, it is permissible to ignore his sacerdotal pre- 



