7. Whence the Ideas of Liberty and Neceffity. 9. Suppofes Underftanding and Will. 14-20. Liberty belongs not to the Will. 22-24. In refpect of willing, a Man is not free. 25, 26, 27. The Will determined by fomething without it.. 30. Will and Defire must not be confounded. 33. The Uneafinefs of Defire determines the Will. 34. This the fpring of Action. 35. The greateft pofitive Good determines not the Will, 36. Because the removal of Uneafiness is the first step to 37. Because Uneafinefs alone is prefent. 38. Becaufe all who allow the Joys of Heaven poffible, pursue them not; but a great Uneafihefs is never 50. A conftant Determination to a Pursuit of Happiness no Abridgment of Liberty. 51. The Neceffity of purfuing true Happiness, the Foundation of all Liberty. 52. The Reafon of it. 53. Government of our Paffions the right Improvement of Liberty. 54, 55. How Men come to purfue different Courses. 56, How Men come to choose ill. 57. First, From bodily Pains. Secondly, From wrong Defires, arifing from wrong Judgment. 58, 59. Our Judgment of prefent Good or Evil always right. 60. From a wrong Judgment of what makes a necessary part of their Happiness. 61, 62. A more particular Account of wrong Judgments. 63. In comparing present and future. 64, 65. Caufes of this. 66. In confidering Confequences of Actions. 67. Causes of this. 68. Wrong Judgment of what is neceffary to our Happi nefs. 69. We can change the Agreeablenefs or Difagreeableness in things. 70, 71, 72, 73. Preference of Vice to Virtue, a manifest wrong Judgment, TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOM A S, EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY, Baron HERBERT of Cardiff, Lord Ross of Kendal, Par, Fitzhugh, Marmion, St. Quintin, and Shurland; Lord Prefident of his Majefty's most honourable Privy Council, and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wilts and of South Wales. MY LORD, THIS HIS treatife, which is grown up under your Lordfhip's eye, and has ventured into the world by your order, does now, by a natural kind of right, come to your Lordship for that protection which you several years fince promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great foever, fet at the beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it; things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader's fancy; but there being nothing more to be defired for truth than a fair unprejudifed hearing, nobody is more likely to procure me that than your Lordship, who are allowed to have got fo intimate an acquaintance with her in her more retired receffes. Your Lordship is known to have fo far advanced your fpeculations in the most abstract and general knowledge of things beyond the ordinary reach or common methods, that your allowance and approbation of the defign of this treatise will at least preserve it from being condemned, without reading, and will prevail to have thofe parts a little weighed, which might otherwife, perhaps, be thought to deferve no confideration, for being fomewhat out of the common road. The imputation of novelty is a terrible charge amongst those who judge of mens heads, as they do of their perukes, by the fashion, and can allow none to be right but the received doctrines. Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: New opinions are always fufpected, and ufually opposed, without any other reafon, but because they are not already common: But truth, like gold, is not the less fo for being newly brought out of the mine; it is trial and examination must give it price, and not any antique fashion; and though it be not yet current by the public ftamp, yet it may for all that be as old as nature, and is certainly not the lefs genuine. Your Lordship can give great and convincing inftances of this, whenever you please to oblige the public with fome of those large and comprehenfive discoveries you have made of truths hitherto unknown, unless to some few, to whom your Lordship has been pleased not wholly to conceal them. This alone were a fufficient reason, were there no other, why I should dedicate this Effay to your Lordship; and its having fome little correfpondence with fome parts of that nobler and vast system of the sciences your Lordship has made so new, exact, and inftructive a draught of, I think it glory enough, if your Lordship permit me to boast, that here and there I have fallen into fome thoughts not wholly different from yours. If your Lordship think fit, that, by your encouragement, this fhould appear in the world, I hope it may be a reafon, fome time or other, to lead your Lordship farther; and you will allow me to fay, that you here give the world an earneft of fomething that, if they can bear with this, will be truly worth their expectation. This, my Lord, fhows what a prefent I here make to your Lordship, juft fuch as the poor man does to his rich and great neighbour, by whom the basket of flowers or fruit is not ill taken, though he has more plenty of his own growth, and in much greater perfection. Worthlefs things receive a value when they are made the offerings of refpect, efteem, and gratitude. These you have given me fo mighty and peculiar reafons to have in the highest degree for your Lordship, that |