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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Philosophie LH 4, 7A
# Folio 35r, page id 00068644:0069
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Guiliclmi Pacidii
initia et specimina
CIEN
TIAE
GENNERALIS
sive de instauratione et augmentis scientiarum
in publicam felicitatem
Cmme Eemchae dibenuu
a me
Quo magis appareat omnibus, librum hunc non famae
fortasse
resetiam ab aliis truditas proprio Marte investigam quam tamen neque contemno, neque contemnendam habeo dudum
sed communis utilitatis causa publicari, nomen meum
naprfigere nonnisi commutatum praefigere decrevi-
eoque liberius quaedam ad hujus operae commendationem
pertinentia dicere potero,  quae alioqui jactantiae
poterant imputari, a cujus tamen suspicione me
fortasse Lectores aequi rerumque intelligentes absolvent
Ante omnia igitur cogor profiteri quod res est, inter omnes
cum
tot viros egregios nostri temporis, quibus egoneque de
ingenio neque de doctrina certaverim, neminem facile
majore studio, sinceroque magis in veritatem, tucrique et
ambitionis puro affectu per omne disciplinarum genus
publico generis humani bono laborasse. Illam enim
et mecum statui dudum, et multo hominum usu certissimam
deprehendi verae pietatis notam; in his maxime eniti
in his sua compendia, suam voluptatem collocare, quae
in publicam salutem redundant, commoveri penitus
aliorum malis; et si occurrere possis, non modo non incommodis
sed neque periculis deterreri. Quod hominum genus
srio parum politicum illis videri, quibus finis laborum censetur
videtur hanc vitam jucunde transigere, aut qui cuncta
referunt ad suam magnitudinem suas commoditates,
quibus vellent siopus sit omnium aliorum miseria serviri