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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 20
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are Nhollus ignorant Nhat Rinds os Things are in Thal space. Those
Vriters, Who by the Nord imagimari, meant at anu lime to asium that
Space Was not real, didnot therely Prove tharit Was not real.
CB. Space is nol a, Deing, an eternal et insinite Deing; but a tropentus
or a consequence os thelxistence ol a D’enq infinite et eternal. infinite
Space is Immensitys: Bu ommensitus is not Tod: Apd therefore infinite space
is not Lod. Poris there Any difficulty in What is here alleged about
space havinq sarts. Hor Infinite space is One, absolutelys et essentiallis
indivisible; Agd to suppose it parted, it a contradiction in termsi because
mere must be space in the hantition itselt; Ahim is to suppose it partet,
cet
et yet not parted at me same time. Tne immensity or Ompipresence ot
Lod, is no more a dividinq ol his substance into Tarts; thanhis duraton
or Continuance ot existinq, is a dividinq of his existence into tants
There is no diffeiculty her, bul Peat arises from me figurative abuse
olthe Word Parts.
4  space Nas nothinque but the Onder ot Taings Co- existing: it Houl
falloW, thalif Tod Mould remove m a strait line ie Whole material
Norld Ennire, With apus Sistnets shatho ever; yet it Nould Aill altays
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continue n the fame lace: and thar nothmqus Would recieve any Thork upon
he nost sudden coppinqot that Motion. And is Time Nas nothinus but
but the Order ot succession et creared things, il Noulo TalloW, Thatis Eod
had created the Norco millions of Ager soener than he cid, yet il Hould not
have been created at all ne sooner. Aurther: Space et Sime are vantitiet.
Nhich situation et Order are not
5.FThe Argument in Lnis Taragraph, is; that because space is uniforri
or alike, and one hart does not difser from another, theresore the Dodies
created in One place, it they had been created in Anomer place (supposinq
t
them to feep the same situation Nith regardto eaca other) Nould Aili
have been creater in the same Tlace at before: Whim is a manis est contra:
diction. The uniformitis op space, dues in decd prove that there conldbe
no Lexternal  Reason. Nhy Eod Mouto create things in one place rathet
han in another: Dut does thatunder his Oin Will, from beng to
iiselt a suficient reason of Acmus in Amy place, When Al Slacesare
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ndiferent, or Alife, et there be quod reason to act in some place
6. The same feasoninqu lases place here, as n te fore -gomgs.