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Let us consider the argument about morals.
The simplest rule of logic for detecting a fallacy is to think what the facts are and let the rules of loguc go, until you have pinned your fallacy, when they will do nicely to pigeon-hole it.
What are the facts familiar to us all about the control of our conduct?
I do notintend to trouble you with any further refutation of the argument than what is involved in the statement of these facts.
Therefore you must look sharp to see that I make no misstatement.
The necessitarians tell us that when we act, we act under uncer a necessity which we cannot control.
Let us grant for the sake of argument, that that is true.
I am inclined to think it is substantially so.
We certainly cannot control over past actions, and I fancy it is too late to control what is happening at the very instant that is present.
If so, it is true that when we act, we do not act under a necessity that we cannot control.
But our future actions we can determine in great measure; can we not?
To deny that were mere gabble and wordtwisting.
But let us be more explicit and describe the all-

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