Antedating of "Determinism"

[Fred Shapiro]

determinism (OED 1846)

1838 _Foreign Quarterly Review_ July 270 (Periodicals Archive Online)  For
twenty long years did the demon of determinism lie, like a night-mare,
upon his soul, till at last the redemption came.

Fred Shapiro


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