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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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AFuller Accompt of Anaximanders BOOK 1
therefore that Insinite Worids, are successively thus Generated and Cor
rupred. Andhe sives the reason why it is Infinite, that so there misht be
never any Fail of Generations. But he erreth in this, that alsienine
onty a Material Cause, he tahes avay the Actioe Principle of thines. Por
Anaximanders infinite, is nothine else but matter; but Matter can pro-
duce nothine, unless there be also an Active Cause. Where hethers allo, hon
anaximenes Followed anaximander herein, in altignins ouly a Material
Cause oF thetniverse, richout ans Eficient; thoush he differed
Fromhim, in makeins the First Matter to De Air, and deriving all
thinos From thence, by Rarefaction and Condensation. Thus, mesce,
It is plain, chac AnaximanderS Infinite, Was no Infinite Alind, whictu
is thetrue Deiey, buc ouly insinite Matter, deroid oE any LileOr
Actire POHeT. Ensebius ismore particular in givins an acconnt ot
anaximanderS Cosmopeeia. 1d arese gu Fare Tlu. neoav airiav éx ciV ~
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i LuxeS, n rld reveoi 28dE 2S udsus a rone Crivat, nat TVa ex T6TC
PNoyoS opi, cVVaI 7 cI Tuv yuv aée, co5 ru devsteco ~MOI-
or. HS TIVO arDeaVCIONS, I EIS TIVAE CETOHNGIODEIONS WVHAZS, VTOErVaL 7 HN1OV,
nn Tim oenuvlu, i 285 aisi eg5 Anaximander affirms, Infinite (MALTCF)
robethe only cause of the Generation and Corruption of allthines. And
that the Feavens, and Infinite Worids, vere made ont of it, by way
of Secretion or Segrecation. Also that those Generative Principles of
Hseat and Cold, that vere conteined in it from Eternity, beins Segre
sated, when this Woridmas made, a certain Sphere of Flame or Fire, did
first arise and incompass the Air, which surrounds this Farth, (a sa Bark
doth a Trec) which beine aftermards broken, and divided into smaller
Spherical Bodies, constituted the sun and Moon and all the Starsa
Wrhich Anaximandrian Cosmopeeia, as brieAy hinted by Aristorle in
these ords, oi di ex 78 Eros, ersous rec evarriorulas, exne ersoi, co 
AraEiare ES Duor Some Philosophers Generate theWorid, bythe secre-
tion and Secrecation of inexistent Contrarieties, as Anaximander speaks
And elemere in hisMetaphr(icks, he cakses notice ot arasidictes rd
uirua, AnaximandersMixture ofthines. Whence we conclude, chat
Anaximander SInfinite, ivas nothinq else but an Infinite Chaos ot Mat
ter, in Wrhich vere cither ActuallY, or Pocentially, conteined all
manner oF Oualities; by the Fortuitous Secretion and Segregation
ot trhich, he suxposed Intinite W orids to besuccessirely Generated
and Corrupted. So that me may nom eatily suels, Wtence Lencip.
pus and Democritus had cheirEnfinite Worlds, and perecive honear
2kin, thele emo Acheistick Aypotheses mere. But it willnoc be 2
iss cotake notice al(o OF that Particular Conceie, itich Anaxi-
mandentad concerninqe the First Orixinal oF Brute Animal5 and Man-
eta Pb. . 5. c. IBKive. OF the FOrmer elutareh sires us this ACCOUnE; Ava Eparte
et ireco rmmda Ta ReCoTA Eca, ∞2010I5 Cua anar DEI, XCG
BarSonS 3 ~ iamias, aerobalvar 67 rd Ene ce r, n ceery v, d8 2
PnOIS, Ex Onigov Xe GVON METaSIEVaI That the F irst animals vere genera-
ted in Moisture, and encompas d about mith certain Thorny Barks, by
exhich they vere suarded and defended, which after furiber crontt
comine to be more Dry and crachins, they issued forth, but lived
onty asport time aster. And as For chetrA Original oF Men, Ensebius
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