V.
(Endowed with freedom of will, p. 347.)
Elsewhere in this treatise our author defines the will as "able to resist external causes." The profound work of Edwards needs no words of mine. 1 As an example of logic the most acute, it is the glory of early American literature. I read it eagerly during my college course, while under the guidance of my instructor in philosophy, the amiable and profound Dr. Tappan (afterwards president of the University of Michigan), who taught us to admire it, but not to regard it as infallible. See his vigorous review of Edwards, 2 in which he argues as a disciple of Coleridge and of Plato.
On allied subjects, let me refer to Wiggers's Augustinismus, etc., translated by Professor Emerson of Andover; 3 also to Bledsoe's Theodicy, 4 heretofore cited. I venture to say, that, among the thinkers of America, and as Christian philosophers, both Bledsoe and Tappan are less known and honoured than they deserve to be.
