# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0076 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0076?run=74 # Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137) # Folio 46, page id 1066509719:0076 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=1066509719&page=76 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/1066509719/jpgs/default/00000076.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 51 lines, status machine # Lines: 51 recognised, mean confidence 0.92 # 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. The Sensitive Soul not Corporeal. B0OK I. Thac indecd ot the emo, this Opinion is more Reasonable diet le lerable thanthat ocher Exrravaganes ofthole, irto ill cirtier make alI Souls to bc Generatod and consequenelis to bC Corporeal, OK at least the senfitire Soul both in Men and Brutes. For Behidesthe Monstrosier oE this latrex opinion, in makins emo distinet souls and Perceptive Substances in every Man, irhich is a thing Cufticient contuted br internal Sense, it lcares us aloin an absolute impos- sibilitr, oF provins che immortalier oF che Rational Soul, the In- CorpOreity oE any Substance, and by consequence the Existence ot any Deits dictinet trom the C Orporeal WV orid. And aS FOT THaL PretenCC OF LHCIrS, thaE Sen VElCIS MaTTer may aS wellbecome Sensutire, and asit vere kindled into Lite and Cogi tation, a5 a Body thac mas deroid of Light and HCat, may be Kindled into Fire and Flame; this scems to aroue t00 much lono- rance oF the Doctrine oF Bodies, in men othermise Learned and Ingenious. The bese Naturalists havins already concluded, That Fire and Flame is nochins but such a Morion oF the Insensible Parts oF aBOdy, as Wwhereby cher are violently agitated, and mans times distipated and scattered trom cach other, begetting in the mean time thole Phancies OF Fieht and Feat in Animals. Now there is no difficuler at all in conceirins that the Insensible Particles oF a Bodr, irhich vere betore quiescent, mar be put intomorion; this beins nochins but a Nem Modisication ot chem, and ne Entityre alls distince trom theSubstance oF Body; a5 Tife, sense and Cogi tation are. There is nochins in Pire and Flame, or a Rindled Bodr, different From ocher Bodies, bur ouly che Motion Or Mecha- nism, and Phancie oF ic. And theretore ic is but a crude conceit irtrich the Acheists and Corporealists oF Former times have Been alvars (0 Fond oF, Thac Souls are nothingbut Pirie orFlam- meous Bodies. For chough Heat in the Bodies ot Animals bC Necessary Instrument For Soul and Lite to aet by in them, vet it is achins really distinet From Lite; and a Red hot Tron hath nOE cheretore any nearer approximation to Lite than ic had betore, nor the Flame oF a Candle than ehe extinguistie SnuF or Fallon oFic; the difference betreen ehem being only in che Asication ot theinsen (iblC PartS. We mistit also add, that accordins to this Hypothesis che SoulS OF Animals conld noc be Numerically the Pame chrouxh out the whole space oE their Lires: Since chat Fire that necds a Pabulum co prey uxon, doch not continue aliraies one and the Pame Numerical Substance. TheSoul oF a nem born Animal could be nomorethe same, with the Soul oF chat Animal several vears after chan che Flame oF a nem ligheed Candle is the Pame with that Flame chaceminkles last inthe Socket. Which indeed areno morethe Tame than a River or Stream is the Pame, at sereral distances ot time. Which Reason mar be allo extended turther to provethe Soul eo beno Body at all Sincethe Bodies oF all Animals are in 2 perpetual EluIX. ZR AVTTI. We hare non lutricieney pertormed our Arst Paske rhich Was e0 Moir trom che Orixin oE etie Aromical Phy siol9GY.