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Excerpt from The General Repository and Review, 1813, Vol. 3 Those who, notwithstanding thelopinion of Milton, still think it possible to obtain clear ideas on the subject, I would refer to the works of Edwards, Hartley, Priestley; and Crombie, on the side of necessity; and of Butler, Clarke, Reid, and Price, on the side of freedom. It is not my intention to enter deeply into the question, or to under take to decide acontrovcrsy, which has puzzled, not only the princes of philosophy, but the princes of Pandemonium. All that I purpose to do in this essay is, to make a few observations, which must be allowed to be true, whatever becomes of the question of necessity, and which are designed to g...