# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068378:0809 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068378:0809?run=74 # Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 20 # Folio 403r, page id 00068378:0809 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00068378&page=809 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00068378/jpgs/default/00000809.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 69 lines, status machine # Lines: 69 recognised, mean confidence 0.80 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. res er coulo nation ment M e Vortd rat Re mon A, et homgh gn et eas dcus. mld etys eves e 25 benus DC aper m Ges ol thinus conveyed toit through the Organs ol Pense: Tod discerns Things, by beinus present to et in the substances of the Tumgs them selves. Not bu froduemus them contrnually; for the reses no c a Ia: trom his Nort of Greation:) but by beinus continuallus omnipiesent ju to everys ihinus ihich he created at the Beginumu. y1. That the Toul spontd not operate upon the, Dody; et y et the Body, by mere mehanical impulse of Matter, conform to the Will ofne Toul in all che infinite varrety ol spontaneous ammal-motion; is a perpetual Miracle. Fre- established tarmonit is a mere Nord or Term of Ant, et does nothinus toWards explainmqs the Cause ot so mraculous an effect. 12. So suppose that in spontaneons animal. motion the soul gives no net motion or impression to Matter; but that al spontancous animul- motion is penformed by mecmanical im- s anc pulle ot Matter; is reducinus all chings to mere tate et Necetsity. Toc 5 acing. in the Wortd upon everu sumus aster What manuer i P3 A1. he pleases. Vhitont any Union et Mithont being acted apon byy axy thing; Thotes plainlus me Difference bet Ween an Ommipresent sovernour et un maginarys soul of the World. 313. Cvery Achion, 2t (in the Nature os Things) Ane sivinus al a net force tothe Thinus adedupon. OtherWise tis not really action, but mere passiveness; as in the case of all mehanical et manimate communications ot Motion. Ptherefore ne sivinqu of neW force be supernatural; then every action of lod is supernatural, et he is quite excluded from the soverment of sand the natural Norld: And every action of Man, is either super- natural, or else Manis as mere a Machine as a Clock. 134 et 135. The Difference betWeen the True Notion ot God, et thatos a Toul ol the Noild, has been besore povn: Paper 2d 87Z: et in this Paper. 829 et 3Z 36. This is anMered;ust above; P3l. 137 Che Soul is not defsused Through the Draim; but 21