The True Intellectual System Of The Universe
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781417920143
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Atheism; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy
First sentence: THEY, that hold the necessity of all human actions and events, do it upon one or other of these two grounds-either because they suppose, that necessity is inwardly essential to all agents whatsoever, and that contingent liberty is, a thing impossible or contradictious, which can have no existence any where in nature; the sense of which was thus expressed by the Epicurean poet,-Quod res quoeque Necessum Intestinum habeat cunctis in rebus agendis, &amp;c.