An Inquiry Respecting the Self-Determining Power of the Will; or Contingent Volition. Second Edition, with Additions and Alterations.

xi, 190 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped rules and decorations. Engraved frontispiece portrait of author. Jeremiah Day was president of Yale College. This is an expanded version of the work first published in 1838, examining the concept of free will as it relates to the Christian concept of God. Contents include: Introductory Observations; Powers of the Mind; Self-Determination; Influence of Motives; Liberty and Necessity; Ability and Inability; Consciousness and Accountability; Common Sense; Mechanical and Physical Agency; Moral Government of God; Activity and Dependence; Fatalism and Pantheism; Testimony of Scripture.