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The proper reply to these arguments, is that it is so far from being true that every must necessarily desire its own gratification that it is absurd to say that any desire should desire its own gratification, and it is so far from being true that every conclusion we draw must necessarily be drawn because we are disposed to believe it true that it is simply absurd to say that a conclusion is drawn because we are disposed to believe it.

The persons who are decieved by these fallacies by several others in philosophy that are analogous to them, confound two disparate categories, an act whose nature is either to exist perfectly definite or not to be at all, and the meaning of a general mental formulation.

Let us begin with the question of morals.
Whether the necessitorians are right or wrong we can certainly exercise a certain control over our actions.
For the doctrine of the necessitarians is that then the time for action comes,

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