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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Philosophie LH 4, 5, 6
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et quod literarum huius Vphabeti combipatione et vocubulorum
quae ratione constant
ex ipsis factorum analysi omnia et inneniri et dijudicari
possent hoc ego deprohenso mirifice exultari, puerili
quidem gaudio num tund rei magnitudinem non satis
caprebam. Sed postea quanto majorem in rerum cognition
progressum feci, ego magis
ed alit Hah m in consilio
rem tantam prosequendi: torte tunc riginti annos
natus moliebar exercitium scademicum itaque scripsi
disertationem de arte combinatoria, quae libelli forma
publicata est anno 160b. in qua mirabile hoc inven
tum publice proposui. Et quidem ea est disrertatio ina
qualis, scribi potuit à prrene nunc primum e schola
nullis,
prodeunte et multis adhuc scentiis realibus imbuto.
neque enimillis in locis mathematuca excolebantur, et si parisus
exegisrem pueritiam, quemadmodum pascalius forte maturiu
ipsas scientins auxisem) duas tamen ob causas eam
dissertationem scripsitie non poenitet. primum quod miri-
fice placuit multis ingeniosissimis viris, deinde quod
jam tunc in ea indicium aliquot orbi fecerim invent
met  ne nunc primum videat talia comminiet.
Cur nemo mortalium, quousque pertingit memoria
hominum monumentis conferrita, ad remtantam acetrerit
equidem sape sum miratus; ordine enim ratiocinantibus
hujus modi meditationes intor primas occarrere debenant
quemadmodum mihu contigit, qui in loqua occupatus adhuc
puer nondum moralia aut mathematica, aut physua
attigeram huc tamen deveni, ob hanc solam rationem
quod semper principia prima quarerem. Veram autem
aberrationis a janua causam arbitror; quod principia
sunt plerumqu arida. et parum grata hominibus
adeoque leriter qustata dimitruntur
Tres tamen
Viros maxime mirar ad tantam rem non accessifre, tri
Aotelem joachimum junguum, et Repatum Carte.
sium Tristoteles enim cum organon et Metaphi
sica scribetet, notionum intina magno ingenio rimatus est.