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One striking result of the rise to pre-eminence of scientific materialism as a means of explaining and predicting phenomena, and particularly in the extension of this to the biological sciences, was a corresponding preoccupation with the question of free will in human behaviour.
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J. Tyndall, ‘The Belfast Address’, in Fragments of Science (New York, 1892), II, p. 201.
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Haynes, R.D. (1980). Free Will and Predestination: Freedom and Limitation. In: H. G. Wells: Discoverer of the Future. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04868-7_7
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