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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Philosophie LH 4, 5, 11
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cuu, ita nullum est corpus torpens. neutro congruente rationi,
bus rerum, tametsi imagitationi blandiantur. Et inter mea argu,
menta a posteriori sumta, quibus oetendo, aliud in substantia corpo–
hea este quam molem, hoc quoy est, quod si nihil aliud adesset, even
ta concursvum definiri deberent pec simplicem compositionem con
natuum; ad eum modum, quem oliur invenis explieni intteoria
motus a sipstomale abstracta, positionitur vulgaribus Domocrito
eis congnuenter natiocinatus. S corpus maxeimum ab exigno
moveri posset, nulla hujus retardatione, dareturque ayens sine
passione, et effectus esset potior causa, et possibilis esset mo
tns perpetune mechamins, qua omnia comaltioritus syetematis
principiis pugnant. Cum ergo leges motnum, proter exten,
sionem et motem a potentiae consideratione pendeant, indicium eet hane
quoque ad substantiae corporea naturam pertinere. Elutrem dis,
finctins explicem, notare operae pretiumo est; si n corpore
nihil aliud etset quam quod Democritive vel cartesiani in eo
concipiunt corpus fore in differene ad motum et quietem, adeque
moventi non elebere resistere ac proinde si quiesleret, quantum,
cunque escet, debere abripi posseat alio quantubocunque. sine ab-
ripientis retardatione. Sed hoc pugnat cum proprietate cor
poris phaenomenias explorata, quam primus, quodsciam, no-
ravit distinateque expressit Repterus, vocans in ertiam naturalem,
qua videlicetfit ut corpus motuifuturo reprgnet, nec nisijactura viet
cum impellentis in motum se concitari patatur erit forlasse qui
dicet, hoc onri non ex naturu substantiae corporae, sed ex legibus
arbitrio divino constitutis. Verum enim vero sciendum eet, Deu
legehrebus praescribere, non promulgatione quadam morali, sed physua
dispositione, dando illis econsernando naturam, vicujus illae
leges observentur: alioqui legum obecrvatio mira culosa forct, si
exsola divina voluntate, non vero ex herum naturis posset ex plicari,
quod ee de substantiarum operatione et commercio sentio. Arou
smentata priori, quibus certo constat mglem, perse substantium facere
non posse, nunc exponere proliins focet Tantum autem abeest