BOOK II PART III
chance they never were just proofs, and conse-
quently never were criminal.
Here then I turn to my adversary, and desire
him to free his own system from these odious
consequences before he charge them upon oth-
ers. Or if he rather chuses, that this question
should be decided by fair arguments before
philosophers, than by declamations before the
people, let him return to what I have advanced
to prove that liberty and chance are synoni-
mous; and concerning the nature of moral ev-
idence and the regularity of human actions.
Upon a review of these reasonings, I cannot
doubt of an entire victory; and therefore hav-
ing proved, that all actions of the will have par-
ticular causes, I proceed to explain what these
causes are, and how they operate.