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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. TI
Atheisticat Philosophy.
reprelents his Senee, EBUS: FE aMOcdEV ZeoCOV o av DeCOS EyENd, eN
28 T4 ui àMa di Eavse rXI VEUEDaI uovor 3 7 avdcenoV nonvxe quio
Scdat TIOnnOECS, dio n naY aeras n aVHOTE TDISTOV orra daoco Dive
Nsen vere at first generated in the Bellies of other animals, forasmuch
as al other animals, aster they are bronebt forth, are quickly able 10
sced and nourist themselves, but Man alone needs to be nursed up a lons
time; andtheresore conld not be preserved at sirst, in any other way. Buc
.l.1
Plutarch expreceth chis Comechins more particularly. NaEipart e95 Simp. lib. 8.
et 1X doW EyIEVEDaI TO neCoTOV adeCo SS airoBalVeraI, ses TeaPEila y yero. . R185 L. 8.
inaerss Eavrois Condeir, ExBNn SivaI ZIVINCVTaN VnSNaCEDaI. Anaximander
concludes that Mlen vere at Cirst Generated in the Bellies of Fistes, and
beine there nonrished, till ihey ereu strons, and vere able 10 sbist for
themselves, tey vere aftermard east ont upon Dry Land. L. aIY, ANa-
ximander s Theolorr, is thus boch reprelenced eo us, and censured, by
Velleins chaEpicurean PhiloCopher in Cicero: Anaximandri opinio est D.NaI. D.
Nativos esse Deos, longis Intervallis Orientes Occidentesque, eosque in -L.ib. 1.
numerabiles esse Mundos, sed nos Deum nisi Sempiternum intellieere qui
possumus? Anaximandersopinionis, that theCods are Native, risine
and vanistine acain, in lons Periods of times; and that these Gods
are Innumerable Worids; but hom can ve conceive ibat 10 be a G0d
vhich is not FternalE We leaen From hencc, chac anaximander did
indecd (0 Far comply wich Vulgar Opinion, as chac he retainea
chename oF God5, but homerer chac hereally denied chelxistence
oF cheching it selF, eren accordins toche judement oF chis Ppicu-
rean Philosopher. Foralmuch as all his Godsivere Native and Mor-
talus and indecd nochins else, buc chole innumerable Worids, ertrict
he supposed in certain Periodsof Time, tobe succellively Genera-
ced and Destrored. Whereforeitis plain, thac anaximanders only
Real Numen, chat is, his First Principle, chac as Ingenerable and Incor-
ruptible, as nochine bue Insinite Matter, deroid oF aII Under-
standins and Lite, by che Portuitons Secretion oE whose inexistent
Onalicies and PartS, he supposed, FirI, che PlemenES OF F artH, Water.
Rir and Fire, and ehen, cheBodies oF che Sun, Moon and ScarS, and boch
Bodies and Souls of men and ocher Animals, and lastly, Innumerable
ox Intinice Cuch WVorlds as chese, aslo many secundary and Native
Crods, (that ere al(o Mortal) cohare been Generated, accordins 10
that Acheiltical Aypothesis deseribed in Plato.
XXTV. Iis certain chat the Vulgar in all Agestrave been very
ill Judses oF Theists and Acheists, cher havins condemned many
hearts Theilts, as suiler oF Acheilim, merely because cher distented
Fromthem, in lome ot their Supersticions Rices and Opinions. A
For example; Anaxasoras the Clazomenian, chouch he masthe hest
OE aIl che Tonick Philo(ophers, Cunless Thales oushit to bC excepted)
erho made an Infinite Mind tobe a Principle, chac is, asterted a Dei
Er, accordins to thetrue Nocion oF ic, vet he mas nocmichstandins.
senerally cried donn For an Acheist, merely becaule he astirmed che
Sun tobe urstegt dieervequ, a Massof Fire, Or a Fiery Clobe, and the
Moon to be an Farth, chat is, because he denied them cobc animated
and endued wich Elnderstanding Souls, and consequentr co beCods.
Solikemile soerates was boch accused, and condemned, For Acheicti
a. apole
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