It is of no use to assert that "there are" laws which determine the future, unless we add that we may hope to find them out. ... If the doctrine of determinism is to assert anything that can be made probable or improbable by evidence, it must be stated in relation to our human powers. Otherwise we run a risk of sharing the fate of the devils in "Paradise Lost," who
reason'd high
Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate,
Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute.
And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Source: Religion and Science, 1935, chapt. 6
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