"What is it that makes a <i>Beast</i> be a Creature of less Liberty than <i>Man</i>, but only that its natural Appetites more necessarily govern all its Actions, and that it is not indued with a Faculty of Reason, whereby to exert itself, and gain a Power or Liberty of over-ruling those Appetites?"
Of the Liberty of Moral Agents [from Sermons]
Preached 1704-1705. At least 10 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1730, 1734, 1742, 1743, 1749, 1751, 1756). [8th edition in 1756.]<br>
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See Samuel Clarke, <u>Sermons on the Following Subjects</u>. Vol. III. (London: W. Botham, 1730).