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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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CHA D. III. Supreme Deity, no Arheists
Divine bue Demoniack thine (a5the Philo(opher chere declares) n
Cod buca Damon ontr, or oE a Midale Nature. Por ic is nochine
BUE BINONaNIa, Or the LoVCof Pulchritude, as sueh, erhrich chouchriehe
Iy uled may perhaps Wing and luspire the Mind, 10 Noble and Oc-
nCrOUS ACtempEs, and beree a scorntul disdeien inic, oF Mean, Dir-
cy, and Sordid chings; vec it is capable ofbeins abuled allo, and chen
it ill Prikce donnvard inco BrucishneIs and Sentualier. Buc at BCK
it is an Afection, belongine ontr eo Imperfect and Parturient BCines;
and cherctore conld noc bc the l’irst Principle oE AII chinss. WHCrC.
Fore we sec no verr preat reaton, buc chac in a Rectitied and Oua-
lified senee, this may passFor erue Theolory; Thac LovC iS ThCSu
Preme Deity aud Orisinal oF all chines; namely, iE by it bcmeane, l
ternal, SelF Orivinated, Incellectual Lore, or Psencial and Substan-
tial Goodness, ehac havins an Intinice overllowina Fulness and
Fecundier, dispenses ic selF Cminvidioullr, accordina coche best Wis
dom, Sircetr Governs nIl, rithout anx P’orec or Violence (+II
chines beins Naturally subject to iis Autorier, and readily oberine
IIS L AWS) and reconciles che rhole World inco Harmony. Forche
Scripture relline us, That God is LovC, Ceems 10 warranc chus much
cous, chac L0ve in Comeristuuly Gualisied (encc, is Ood.
ZIX. But re are to omit the Fabulous ArC, andto descend 10
the Philosophical, eo enquirethere, Wrho chey ivere amone chCPFO.
Fessed Philolophers, irho Acheired in that manner, betore described.
Tciserue indeed, chat Aristorle in ocher Places, accules Demoeritus
and Lencippus ot the verr lame thing, chacis, ot allionine only a AIa-
teriat Canse ot chellniverse, and sivine no aceoune ol the Originat
OF Motion; buc vetit is certain thac chese vere noc che Pertons in
tended by him here; Those wrhich he speales os being rves r RelonN
BINOODBHORVTCV, Come of ihe first and most ancient Philosopbers of all
Moreorer ic appears by his Deleription oF chem thac chey ivere
such as did nocPhilolophire in che may oE Aoms, but resolved all
chines whacsoerer in che Universe, into van, and radu a VAHC, Matter
and che Passions or affections, Onalities and Forms OC Matter 5(0 Chac
ther vere noc Atomical, buc HV lopachian Philo(ophers. Thele CNO
the old Materialists and che Democritieles, did boch alisce derive aIl
chines From Dead and Scupid Macter, Fortuitoully Mored; and che
Disterence betreen them ras onty chis, chac che Demoericictes
manas d ehis bulinels in che ray oF atoms, the ocher in chac more
vulsar way oE Qualities and Forms : 50 chat indccd, chis is really
but onc and che same Acheisticl Hypothesis, in two sereral Schemes.
And as one of them is called che atomicte Atheism, Co cheother, FOr
Distinctions Cake, may be called che Hylopathian.
XE R. Nom pristorle cels i Plat, Calere Syropathian atheists
OE his, ere alL chie Arst Philosophers oF che Tonick Order and Suc
celtion, Betore Anaxaeoras.. Whercol Thales beins cheHcad, he is
consentaneonsly thereunco by Aristorle, madeto De aerny9 a roI
rus pinooea, the Prince and Leader of this hind of Atheisticat Philo-
Sophy, he derivins aIl things Wharloeres, ad Homer had done belore
tuim, trom Wacer, and delnomledoins no ocher Principle buc che
NOc.
Eluid Matter.