Eft quiddam, quod fuâ vi nos alliciat ad fefe, non emolu. CICERO. PRINTED BY J. MOORE, No. 45, COLLEGE- M.DCC.XC. PHILOSOPHICAL, HISTORICAL,' &c. &c. &c. ESSAY On LIBERTY and NECESSITY. THE celebrated controversy on the subject of Liberty and Neceffity has, from the earliest ages in various modes, attracted the attention and employed the fagacity of philofophical and fpeculative minds. Whether the courfe of human events is fixed and unalterable, or uncertain and contingent, is a queftion in the highest degree curious and interefting, but at the fame time involved in difficulties of fuch magnitude, that it may be justly doubted whether it is capable of a solution fo clear and fatisfactory, as to preclude a difference of opinion on this fubject, amongst enquirers equally candid, impartial and intelligent. In modern times, indeed, the conB troverfy |