"৳ But if this be granted, how great is the confusion, how miserable... human affairs? For it would be to no purpose to propose rewards or punishments to... good or... bad, when both... are deprived of liberty, and when the will does not influence... actions. Rewards and punishments... now considered... reasonable and equitable, would... become very unjust; when... mankind are not prompted by... their wills to virtue and vice, but in... conduct compelled by a fatal necessity. If things were so constituted, there would be neither virtue nor vice; but such a preposterous mixture... as would produce... horrid and shocking confusion. Now, this is the most impious idea that can possibly enter into the human mind."