Note 25 — Chapter XVI · BRITISH FREETHOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Sir Leslie Stephen (i, 33) makes the surprising statement that a “dogmatic assertion of free-will became a mark of the whole deist and semi-deist school.” On the contrary, Hobbes and Anthony Collins, not to speak of Locke, wrote with uncommon power against the conception of free-will, and had many disciples on that head. ↑