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Humans Are Determined

The will is a modification of the brain, by which it is disposed to action, or prepared to give play to the organs. In consequence, he acts necessarily, his action is the result of the impulse he receives  either from the motive, from the object, or from the idea that has modified his brain, or disposed his will.

Man's life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve from it, even for an instant.

Society rejects the idea that all of the actions of humans are necessary, because if all the actions of man were to be contemplated as necessary, the right of punishing those who injure their associates would no longer exist.
Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723-89)
Humans Are Determined
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