Proofread and pages added by Jonathan Perry, March 2001. I am mistaken again, or Collins, celebrated London magistrate, is the only philosopher who has really sifted this idea, and Clark's answer to him was merely that of a theologian. But of all that has been written in France on liberty, the following little dialogue seems to me the most clear. Without doubt, I cannot stop myself hearing them. Again very clearly.
Nothing is more true.
But I have a soul which reasons much, and my dog reasons hardly at all. He has almost only simple ideas, and I have a thousand metaphysical ideas. I mean what everyone means. I mean that I am free to wish as I please. You wish necessarily, as a result of the ideas that have offered themselves to you.