This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...to raise a given weight, a single individual can not do it; and therefore, in one sense, he has no power over the weight. But in another sense, he may be said to have some power with respect to it, as he possesses a part of the strength which is required to raise it. In the controversy respecting ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...to raise a given weight, a single individual can not do it; and therefore, in one sense, he has no power over the weight. But in another sense, he may be said to have some power with respect to it, as he possesses a part of the strength which is required to raise it. In the controversy respecting ability and inability, one party applies the term power exclusively to the aggregate of the antecedents upon which the effect depends; the other, to those which are necessary to accountability. According to the former, a man has not ability, unless he has a willing mind, as well as the other qualifications for doing his duty. According to the latter he has ability, if the want of a right will is all that prevents him from Controversies on ability. Practical application. obeying. One side maintains, that that which is insufficient to effect the required change, is not properly called power; that it can be nothing more than powerless power. The other insists, that a man is not bound to do that which he has no power to do. In short, one party asserts, that a man has not full power to repent; the other, that he has some power. Is there any contradiction in this? Yet the notes of alarm and discord are sounded from one end of the land to the other, because some believe that a man has not full power to repent, and therefore say, that he has not ability; while others believe, that he has some power to repent, and therefore say, that he has ability. If each side could only understand the meaning of the other, their controversy, on this point, would be at an end. But what hope is there, that they can be brought together, so long as they are resolved they will not understand each other? so long as each refuses to hear any explanation which is not expressed...
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Good. Size: 0x0x0; 2nd edition. xii + 190p, frontis Bound publishers brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Good binding and cover. Foxing with some toning occurring. Ships daily.
