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If he held the necessarian doctrine, he should have imparted it to her; for her question showed that she was capable of receiving it.

Now, a necessarian, believing that our actions follow from our characters, and that our characters follow from our organization, our education, and our circumstances, is apt to be, with more or less of consciousness on his part, a fatalist as to his own actions, and to believe that his nature is such, or that his education and circumstances have so moulded his character, that nothing can now prevent him from feeling and acting in a particular way, or at least that no effort of his own can hinder it.

Naturally she became a Necessarian, and adopted strenuously the dogma of the invariable and inevitable action of fixed laws.

But the philosophical necessarian does not grant this postulate.

But until we can detect the fallacies of the metaphysician, or supply the connecting link which is now wanting, we must rest in the unsatisfactory conclusion that abstract philosophy is with the necessarian, and that liberty and its ennobling consequences, moral agency, and moral responsibility, rest on the solitary basis of moral argument.