ON CAUSATION AND FREEDOM IN WILLING, ADDRESSED TO JOHN STUART MILL. WITH AN APPENDIX, ON THE EXISTENCE OF MATTER, AND OUR BY ROWLAND G. HAZARD, AUTHOR OF "LANGUAGE," "FREEDOM OF MIND IN WILLING," ETO. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD. Til 5757.1.6 Harvard College Library Aug. 20, 1919. From the library of Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by LEE AND SHEPARD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, LETTER I. ON CAUSATION. ther 1. MY DEAR SIR: In your letter of June 7, 1865, I understand you to agree with me that volition and choice are different; and as you do not object to my definitions of Will and of Liberty, I assume that you accept them. You fursay, that "on the subject, practically considered, I am at one with you. Your view of what the mind has power to do seems to me quite just, but we differ on the question how the mind is determined to do it." You take position and argue the question thus: "But I do not find that your arguments in any way touch the doctrine of so-called Necessity, as I hold it; you allow that Volition requires the previous existence of two things, which the mind itself did not make, at least directly, nor in most cases at all—a knowledge and a want; you consider as the peculiarity of a free cause that its determinations (3) |