A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty (1735)

Read this book online (html) here , which has new translations and modest edits, or read a book scan of the original, which is without translations and corrections. Anthony Collins (1676-1729) was a remarkable English deist, educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge. His brief A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty (1715)—provided here in its 3rd and corrected edition (1735) with new translations and edits—had “not been excelled, at all events in its main outlines, as a statement of the determinist standpoint.” † ————— † Collins, Anthony . (1911). The Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., vol. 6, pp. 692-3). New York : The Encyclopædia Britannica Co.