“He found jurisprudence a gibberish and left it a science.”—Macaulay.
COLLINS, ANTHONY
Free Will and Necessity. A Philosophical Inquiry concerning Human Liberty. First published in 1715. Now reprinted with Preface and Annotations by G. W. Foote, and a Biographical Introduction by J. M. Wheeler 1 0
Superior Edition, on superfine paper, bound in cloth 2 0
“I do not know of anything that has been advanced by later writers in support of the scheme of Necessity, of which the germ is not to be found in the Inquiry of Collins.”—Prof. Dugald Stewart.
“Collins states the arguments against human freedom with a logical force unsurpassed by any Necessitarian.”—Prof. A. C. Fraser.
“Collins writes with wonderful power and closeness of reasoning.”—Professor Huxley.
“Collins was one of the most terrible enemies of the Christian religion.”—Voltaire.
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