Nay, were we determined by anything but the last result of our own minds, judging of the good or evil of any action, we were not free.
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The freest Agents are so determined.
If we look upon those superior beings above us, who enjoy perfect happiness, we shall have reason to judge that they are more steadily determined in their choice of good than we; and yet we have no reason to think they are less happy, or less free, than we are.

And if it were fit for such poor finite creatures as we are to pronounce what infinite wisdom and goodness could do, I think we might say, that God himself CANNOT choose what is not good; the freedom of the Almighty hinders not his being determined by what is best.
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A constant Determination to a Pursuit of Happiness no Abridgment of Liberty.
But to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty let me ask,--Would any one be a changeling, because he is less determined by wise considerations than a wise man?
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool, and draw shame and misery upon a man's self?
If to break loose from the conduct of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worse, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

The constant desire of happiness, and the constraint it puts upon us to act for it, nobody, I think, accounts an abridgment of liberty, or at least an abridgment of liberty to be complained of.