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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8
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vere made againstic. ~ How mans chouehe cher hadl prora
+o a demonstration che Impostibilier and Concradiction ot
chechins? And hom far didches prevait ich che genera-
lier oE ihe WVorid 1o beliere them. And vet hom weak,
and in eruch foolistr, do all their ArgUMenES APDCAE, 10 Men
thac tnom and by experience understand che matter ?
Ochers ill Pay che same concernine the Motion of the
Farth, nocrichstandins che erent Contidence with whict
mans hare underraten ro demonstrare ic to be impostible:
thereason ot which, is only cheimpertect knon leds ve have
ot the chins: and as our understandins ol it is more and
more culars dand elear d, the Contradictions ranim.
Ouche renoc then to chink, aM the Contradictions e
Faner becween che Fore tenomlede of 60d and Continsency
ot Erents, Betmeen Predestination and Frec. will, 1obe the
effects oF our lenorance and partial Rnomleds: Mar ic
noc be in chis, a5 in themarter oF. the Ancipodes, and MO-
tion ol che Farth ? May noc che Inconsistencies chav ne
ind in the one be 25 ill-grounded as thole thac have been
urs d against the others? And have e noc realon:to Tu(
Dect, nay beliere this eo be the Cale; since we are Ture,
thac we hnom much lels ot Ciod and his Acrribures, than
ot the Farth and Hcavenly Motions ?
S. ZX XI. Eren in thesciences ehat are most cominon and
certain, chere are lome thines, erhich amons thole that are
unacquainted rich Cach maccers, rould pass For Contra-
dictions. Astor example, lec us luppose one pould happen
eomention Nesative Onantities amons Persons Arangers 1o
ehe Mathemacieks; and beins askd what is meane by chose
ords, ould antiver, Thac he understands by ehem Ouan-
tiries, that are conceird to be lels ehan Norhine; and chae
one ol their Properries is, that beine mulciplu dbv a Num-
ber less than Nochins, the Produet may be a Maenitude
ereater than anr altiend. This miohe justly appeara Rid-
ale, and sull ot Contradictions, and verhaps will do (0 10
a BTCaE DatE oF y Auditors. Somerhins lels than Nochins.
in appearance is a Contradiction; a Number less than No-
thins, has thelame Face: char chele Mould be multipliable
on one anocher, Tonnes very oddly; and chat che Produa
ot lels chan Nothins uxon less chan Nothins Mould De Do-
licire, and ereater chan ans assien dOuantier, scems incon-
ceirable. And vec it ehc most Ponorant ill but have pa-
cience, and applr chemselres tor Instruction eo che Stiltul in
chese matters, iher will soon tind all ihe scemins Contra.
dictions