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The regularists are the heirs of the nominalists; the necessitarians of the Epicureans.

That a worse “fatalism” is inculcated in the doctrine of a foreordaining and ever-directing providence, planning and controlling every one of the child’s actions, than ever was taught in necessitarian essays.

Collins was a pronounced necessitarian; Morgan regarded the denial of free will as tantamount to atheism.

He adopted and advocated the utilitarian and necessitarian theory of morals, and wrote of ordinary theism and religion, as arising from personification of unknown causes, for general or special phenomena.

The necessitarian may be an optimist of a high order.