But much, very much, remains to be done, before these three pages merit the name of a Recapitulation.
Disc.VII.p.

375.
If I needed proof of the immense importance of the doctrine of Ideas, and how little it is understood, the following discourse would supply it.
The whole discussion on Prescience and Freewill, with exception of the page or two borrowed from Skelton, displays an unacquaintance with the deeper philosophy, and a helplessness in the management of the particular question, which I know not how to reconcile with the steadiness and clearness of insight evinced in the earlier Discourses.

I neither do nor ever could see any other difficulty on the subject, than what is contained and anticipated in the idea of eternity.
By Ideas I mean intuitions not sensuous, which can be expressed only by contradictory conceptions, or, to speak more accurately, are in themselves necessarily both inexpressible and inconceivable, but are suggested by two contradictory positions.

This is the essential character of all ideas, consequently of eternity, in which the attributes of omniscience and omnipotence are included.

Now prescience and freewill are in fact nothing more than the two contradictory positions by which the human understanding struggles to express successively the idea of eternity.