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Date: 1789
"A river may as soon be made to flow back to its fountain, as volitions can be exempted from the necessitating influence of motives."
preview | full record— Belsham, William (1752-1827)
Date: 1789
"But if it means the mental energy preceding and producing volition, it is then plainly equivalent to the term motive, and the question is reduced to a mere verbal controversy; for this mental energy, denoting only a particular disposition and state of mind, must itself have resulted from a previ...
preview | full record— Belsham, William (1752-1827)