To the Editor of the Wilnlingtoniap
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ssWoman, where are those thing accusers' hath
no man condemned thee, She saith no man Lord.
And Jesus said unto her, NEITHER DO ICON
DENIM TIiEE!"


10 "a person competent to the task, it
would be pleasing and instruc.ing specula-
ton to retrace his own actions from their ul
innate to their remote causes; combining, III
his progress, all the circumstances connect
ed with the effects produced to examine
the bearing that those which were internal
had upon one another, and how these were
influenced and put in motion by external cir.
cumstances. In following the movements in
the mind of Scovol, We perceive that the de-
sire to convince his friend that he was free
agent, set his passive reasoning faculties into
motions he deiiberatcd between the motive
to convince his friend, and the pain he would
endure the 70 mer prevailed, and delbera-
tion assumed its active quality in preparing
the passive judgment to exercise its tunc-
tions: the Judgment was convinced by the
motives which dcliberation had produced'
ed, and became an agent in preparing
the passive choice to select that which
the Judgment had decided to be the
best the choice in turn became the agent in
preparing the passive will to execute that
which was chosen: and lastly, the will be-
came the agent, and through the medium OF
the nerves, produced motion in the passive
hbres of the muscles, which carried the hand
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the strength of the motive to convince his
friend over that to avoid the pam.


Man is, therefore, both fiatient and agent;
both taSsiue and actipe.


A person possessed of very delicate per-
ceptions, accurately noticing all the motions


which pass in his mind. would discover that
there was not single action Of his life, mo-


l al or physical; single motion which VIC
! call voluntary, but what was the result o


some external or internal preceding circum-


stance beyond his immediate control: tina


the doctrine Of absolute " freedom twill


was at variance with facts. He would dis
cover athat he was not master Of the tenn
permanent which nature had given him; tina


he could not control those ideas, or thu


notifications of his brain, which were du,


to causes, that in spite of him were continu


ally acting Oh him; that he could not re


fran from desiring or loving those object
which he found desirable or amiable; tina
he could not avoid delibcratng, when he wa
uncertain OF the effects which an objec
might produce upon him; that he could no


avoid choosing those things which his judg


ment told him would be most advantagcou
, for him and finally, that he could not ac
$ otherwise than he did act, when his will wa
determinedby his choice"


f From all that we have said, it is not to b
4 inferred that man is not an accountable crea
ture: we say that he is accountable; not t
: those unjust and Partial iazus (Which man ha
e made, and which sometimes punish the in
; nocent, and lets the culprt escape; but, t
E an unerring law within, which, without re
S spect of persons, and under every circum
stance, justly proportions the chastisemen
to the depravity.