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Date: 1676
"Can that blind faculty the Will be free, / When it depends upon the Understanding??
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1676
The understanding argues before the will can choose and "the last Dictate of the Judgment sways / The Will, as in a Balance, the last Weight / Put in the Scale, lifts up the other end"
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
Date: 1676
"All objects are ready form'd and plac'd / To our hands; and these the Senses to the Mind convey, / And as those represent them, this must judge: / How can the Will be free, when the Understanding, / On which the Will depends, cannot be so"
preview | full record— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)
