PHILOSOPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND LITERARY. Eft quiddam, quod fuâ vi nos alliciat ad fefe, non emolu- LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. DILLY, IN THE POULTRY. MDCCLXXXIX. 287 321 338 363 383 399 417 436 XXII. On the Genius and Spirit of Christianity XXIII. On the Slave Trade 8, dele the whole line. 15, not be, r. be not. - - 250, 27, - irrifeftible, r. irresistible. 5, after education? I cannot, &c. ESSAY S, PHILOSOPHICAL, HISTORICAL, &c. &c. &c. TH ESSAY I. On LIBERTY and NECESSITY. HE celebrated controverfy on the fubject of Liberty and Neceffity has, from the earliest ages and 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 question in the highest degree curious and interesting, but at the fame time involved in difficulties of fuch magnitude, that it may be justly doubted whether it is capable of a folution 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 controverfy has affumed a more regular and fcientific form; and |