has been
adopted by Leibnitz, by Collins, by Gravezende, by Edwards, by
Bonnet, and by all later necessitarians." The truth is, as we have
seen, that instead of adopting, Leibnitz has very clearly refuted,
the definition of Hobbes. Mr. Harris, in his work entitled "The
Primeval Man," has also fallen into the error of ascribing this
definition of liberty to Leibnitz. Surely, these very learned
authors must have forgotten, that Leibnitz wrote a reply to Hobbes,
in which he expressly combats his views of liberty.

23 Essais de Theodicee, pp. 5, 6.

24 Id., p. 8.

25 Inquiry, part ii, sec. viii.

26 Day's Examination of Edwards on the Will, sec. v, pp. 80, 81.

27 Inquiry, part iv, sec. 9.

28 Ibid.

29 Ibid., sec. 7.

30 Institutes of Theology, vol. ii, part iii, chap. i.

31 Lectures on Theology, by the late Rev. John Dick, D. D.

32 Dissertation, p. 41.

33 Dick's Lectures, vol. ii, p. 157.

34 History of the Reformation, b. v.

35 Hill's Divinity, ch. ix, sec. iii.

36 The Divine Government, Physical and Moral, b. iii, ch. i, sec. iii.

37 Id., b. iii, ch. i, sec. ii.

38 Ibid.

39 The Divine Government, Physical and Moral, b. iii, ch. i, sec. ii.

40 Ibid.

41 Ibid.

42 Ibid.

43 The Divine Government, Physical and Moral, b. iii, ch. i, sec. ii.

44 Hume's Works, Liberty and Necessity.

45 Bacon.

46 Of Liberty and Necessity.

47 Although Mr. Hume gives precisely the same definition of liberty as
that advanced by Hobbes, Locke, and Edwards, he had the sagacity to
perceive that this related not to the freedom of the will, but only
of the body. Hence he says, "In short, if motives are not under our
power or direction, which is confessedly the fact, we can _at bottom
have_ NO LIBERTY." We are not at all surprised, therefore, at the
reception which Hume gave to the great work of President Edwards, as
set forth in the following statement of Dr. Chalmers, concerning the
appendix to the "Inquiry." "The history of this appendix," says he,
"is curious. It has only been subjoined to the later editions of his
work, and did not accompany the first impression of it. Several
copies of this impression found their way into this country, and
created a prodigious sensation among the members of a school then in