Jfirst. THE ORIGINAL FORCES. CHAPTER LNECESSITY. We are accustomed to think that every thing was created by God, and might have been otherwise if he had so wished. There are, however, certain laws which have always existed, and so do not depend on him for their existence, and which could not but exist, and so could not have been made different, or ever be changed. It is these laws, existing as forces in nature, that we shall first consider. These laws, taken in their totality, we may call necessity.
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