To the Editor ofthe Wilmingtoniaa.
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S1R-A certain writer, in vourpaper over
the signature of ERosrRATus," has writ
ten number of essays to prove the strange
|' doctrine of circumstances" His exam
|ple of the two children born in Constantine
Iple, and OF Socrates remaining in prison after
the doors were thrown open for him to es-
cape, SO far from proving the "doctrine of
circumstances" is the best argument that
could be adduccd in favor of free will, )"
and of "man forcing his own character"
parents, liberty to turn Mahometan, if he
| had chosen do so? And was not the Ma
homctan child at liberty to become a Chris
tian if he wished to9 certainly-and SO was
Socrates at full liberty to leave his prison,
If he had been disposed to do 50.


If "ERosTATus" had drawn his exam


Piles from inanimate matter, he might have
proved to his readers, that, tlfat was subject
! to the laws of circumstances, and no one
would have objected to it: for instance, sup
I pose A takes STONE and throws it at b,
anu hlliS MIN Tue StoHr 10 tHe Hoe' ""f'H'
1 zuhereby B came to his DEATH, UNDER THE


CIRCUMSTANCE" of having motion COM


municated to it by A, in the direction OF BIS


head. Now Substitute motives for cir


cumstances,' and you have literatum," a


certain Editors mode of reasoning, and can


prove that the stone was rational creature;
1 because whatever acts from "motlve,


must deliberate between two "motives'