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Excerpt from Freedom of Mind in Willing: Or Every Being That Wills a Creative First Cause This book owes its origin, as my grandfather was always glad to say, to his friendship and conversation with Dr. Channing. Some time previous to 1840 Dr. Channing directed his attention to Edwards and the problems of Free Will and Necessity, asking him to prepare an argument which should logically refute that of Edwards. This, encouraged by Dr. Channing, he consented to undertake. "My progress in it was slow," he writes, "perhaps the slower because I soon concluded that all the advocates of freedom had virtually given up the philosophical argument and fallen back, either on revelation or their own consciousness - which weighed nothing with those who questioned the supreme authority of the Bible, or asserted their consciousness was not that they acted freely but the reverse. Hence I resolved not to read, lest I should get into these ruts of thought, which evidently did not lead to the point I wished to reach, but would first try to work out the problem in my own way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.