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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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C. H A P. II. Ath. mahe Lnomlede Funior 10 theWorid
chese cro Nocions, theonc oF a Knomine Onderscandine Beine, clc
orter oE a Perfectiy Happy Beins, arc Comradictious, because aII
Rnomledse FMentially implies Dependenee uxon lomechins else
aSits Cause z Scientia ex Intellectus Penum est Potentiae ab alio Depen-
dentis, id quod non est Beatissimum. They conclucle chac Cogicari-
on and all Action Whatloever, is really nochins else buc Local MO-
tion, which is Fsentially Heterokinesce, chac irhich can never rile
OF ic selE, buc is caused by Come ortier Agent wichou ils Subject.
XV. In che Elerench place, che Democririele Acheilts reason
thuS: IF the World vere made by any Ancccedem Mind or Ulnder-
Canding, chat is, by a Deicy; chen chere mult necds be an Idea-
Platform and Exemplar oF che Wwhole World betore ic was made; and
consequenely Actual Hnomledse, boch in order oE Pime and Na-
ture, Betore Things. But aII Knomledre is che information oE che
chinss chemselres knomn, aIl Conception oEche Mind is a Passiontrom
the thines Conceived, and their Actirier upon ic; and is cherctore
Juniour to chem. Wheretorethe Worid and Things, vere betore
Knomledse and che Conception oF iny Mind, indno Unomledee.
Mind or Deiry beForethe Worid asits Cau(c. Fhis Argument is chus
propoled by che Acheistick Poet;
Exemplum porro sienundis rebus, e ipsa
Notities hominum Divis unde insita primim,
Duid vellent facere ut scirent, animoqu viderent ?
duove modo est unquam vis coenita Principiorum
Duidnam inter sese permutato Ordine possent,
Si non ipsa dedit specimen Natura creandi E
Fon conldthe supposed Deiry have a Pattern or Platform in his alind
10 frame the Woridby, and hence Bould he receive it? Hom contd
hehave any Knomledee of aen besore they vere made, as also ohat
himsels sould ill 1o domben there was nothine ? Hom conld he under-
stand the Force and Possibility of the Principles, hat they vould pro-
duce when varionsty combined tosether, before Nature and Thines them
selves, by Creatine had siven a specimen E
ZVI. A Twelsch Argumentation OE che Democririck and Epi-
curean Acheists against a Deier, is eo chis purpose: Thac chinss
conld noc bemade by a Deitr thac is supposed co bc a Beine cvery
ay Pertect; because cher are (0 Fauler, and (0 III made: Lhc AF.
sument ischus propounded by Eucretius;
Duod si jam rerum ienorem primordia quae sint,
Hoc tamen ex ipsis Caeli Kationibus ausim
Consirmare, aliisque ex rebus reddere multis,
Nequagnam nobis Divinitus esse paratant
Naturam rerum, tanta stat praedita Cnlpa.
This ArgumeMC, d Cah Katronibus, Erom AAronOmy, or che Consti-
cion oEche Heavens,is chis: Phac cheMundane Sphere is (0 Framed, in
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