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# Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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Athers contendthat Ihe First Principle BOOK I.
octier in thie Umrerle entire, and Noching oF it lost. WherctOre
etie Substanice OF Macter and Body, as distinguisted From the Acci
denies, is the only chinq in the morla chatis Ulncorruptible and TIn-
destrorable. And oF this it is to be undercood chat Nothins can
bemade out oF Noching; and Destroyedto Nochins, (1. e:) thac
everr entire chins that is Made or Generated, must be made
OF lome oreeristent MaLter; Wrhich Mlatter as From Eterit
SelF- existent and Inmade, and is also undestrorable, and
can rever be redued eo Noching. IE is noc to be under.
Aood ot the Accidents themselres; that arc aIl Makeable and
Destrorable, Generable and Corruptible. Whatloever is in the
NVorla is bue uni nis Exsoa, Matier so and so Atodisied or onalified.
alI irtrich Modisications and Oualifications oF Matter are in their omn
nature Deltrorable, and the Macter it PelE (asthe Basis oFctiem, not
necessarily derermin d eo this or that Accident) isthe ontr agemntor
n arconede  che onty Necestarily Existent. The Conclusioir there
Foreis, thacnoanimal, no Lirins Inderstandins Bodr; canbe Ab-
Solutely and Essentially Incorruptible, this beins an Incommunica-
ble Property ot the Matter, and cheretore there can can be no Cor-
Poreal Deity, che Original oFallchings, P. Sencially Clndestroyable.
Thouoh che stoicks imasined the wrhole Corporeal Ulniverse c0
be an Animal or Dcity, vec this Corporeal Cod oF theirs Was
onty by Accidene Incorruprible and Immortal, becaule they
Supposed, that there was no other Matter, Which existine rith.
out ehis Worid, and makcins Inrodes upon it, could dilunite
ehe Pares oF ic or dilorder its Compages. Which it there ivere, the
Lite and Ulnderstandins oF chis Stoical God, or great Mundane Ani-
mal, a5 Well as that ot ocher Animals in like Cales, must necds va-
nictrinto nothins. Thustrom the Principles oF Corporealilm it selF.
it plainlr Follors chac there can be no Corporeal Deitr, because
ehie Deity is suppoled to be agemmulor is aveonede gu, 2 chins chat waSnC-
ver made, andis Psentially Undestrorable, Which are the Pririleses
and Properties oE nochins bur Senselels Matter.
Z. Inthenext place, the Atheists undertake more effectually
eo contute that Corporeal God oF the Stoictes and otters, From the
Principles oF che Atomical PhiloCophy, in this manner. AII C OrpO
real Theistswho alsere chac an Cnderstanding Nature or Mind, re
Cidins in theMaiter oE the whole Ulniverse, was the Arst Orivinal
OF cheMundane Syctem, and did Incellectually Frame it, betray no
Imall Tonorance of Philosophy and the Nature oF Body, in SuPPO
Ing Real Oualicies, Belides Magnitude, Pigure, Site and Motion
a5 Simple and Primitire things, to belons toit; and that there mas
such a Oualier or Faculer oF Understanding in the Matter OF the
rhole Clniverse coeternal ith the same, chat was an Original
chins Uncompounded and IInderived trom any chins clle. No
eo suppose such Orixinal Oualities and Povers, Wrhich are Really
Distinet From che Substance oF Extended Matrer and its Modificati-
ons, oE Divisibilier, Figure, Site and Mocion, is Really osuppose
so many Dictinet Substances, which cheretore mult needs be Incor.
Poreal.
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