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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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ASont of the Worid
etual (15 chac PInKick Nature in AnimalS 15) or at least fome Infertont
Principle, dependine on sueb a sonl. And indecd irtiarever ehe D0
etrinc ot chemodern Peripaterickes be, we malie no doube ac aII buc
chac Aristorle himsele hela che Worlds Animicion or a Mundane
Soul; Forasmuch as he plainly declares himsele concernins it, else.
where inhis Book DeCaelo, alter ehis manneC; aN iIS cdS aI oco (a- Lib. C. 2. 12
TOV USioV aV , i paorad EW id erburco a uZeV 3 r aUna diaevo.
SuEa. Sci ) coG METEXSIICON VONaUBarEW MedEECS X, ECHS BUL We com-
montythink of the Heavens, as nothine else but Bodies and Monads,
havine only a certain Order, but altocether manimate; atirca ve
oueht on the contrary to conceive of them, as partahine of Lise,
and action: chac is, 25 being endued wich a Racional or Inrellectual
Lite. P’or (0 simplicius chere righely expounds che place, Sa ) ci5 vC.
et euzur avr s ooyisC  Noymir ezsrrco loxie a5 : ned EeGns
Econs nogmiis nclexdu. 2d acte gd roiciv, n  3 at So Wzcov naerngo
e3p, 1 n7 2 a lb2co) ocoMaTCOV, 2d) reg cv nveius r 2 Nozmior lurcor
arne But we oueht 1o think of the Hleavens, as Animated rith a
Rational Soul, andthereby partahine of action and Lational Li(C. FOr
(Caith he) Thoneh noeir be assirmed not onty of Errational souls, but also
os Tnanimate Bodies, vet the mord recc 3) does onty denominate Kational
Beines. But Further, 1o calee smay aIl manuer oE scruple or doube,
concernins ehis Bultrels; char Philolopher belore in che Tame B00IC,
earios aftirmeth, dn o searos tu ) VXO, n ae ziv nanorcos exd. That 1hC
Fleaven is animated, and hath a Principle of acorion within it sels.
Where by che Heaven, as in mans ocher places oP aristorle and Plato,
is to be understood cheWhole Worid.
There is indeed One Paltire in che Pame Bool De Caelo, irhich aF
Trst Sihe, andsliphelr considered, mar seem eo concradiet chis again
and cheretore probablr isthat, ertrich hach led mans into a contrary
Pertivation, chac Aristorle denied che Worids Animation aMa Un 2Z
vro. Luzs sl’nogor avana ZEonS uerew aldcor. 3de 7d ~ lu2n siou r Civeu rn
roIaUTW ZCOIV aNVTOV n, uanaeiaer avaesun qd s Tuv nivnoir p∞r∞ 614G SOUV,
EPVndTOS 7S necorS OCO a N NCS ry nveiv OWVEZC, a gONOV EvaL ii ndOE
arut Nay isRou easconE EuPecVO. eye unst a0  rn duyn ry = Ou
TCoco Z aVI ravOIS n a  VRVOV Z  rdalS aVEOIE, aNN avatusion
TEiorss rros pasiegr nalexd aurur aeldior s, à reVTOI. Dut it is not reasonable
neither, torhink that the Heavens continue 10 Pternity, moved by a
Soul necessitatine, or violently compelline them. Nor indeedis it possible,
that the Lise of suet a Soul. stonld be pleasurable or happy. Vorasmuets as the
continual Violent Motion of a Body (naturally inclinine co move another
vay) must needs be a very unquiet ihine, and void of all Alental KC
pose; especially when there is no such Kelaxation, asthe souls of nortal
animals have by seep; and therefore suct a Soul os ihe Woridas this.
must of necessitu be condemned 10 an Eternal Exionian Fate. BUL in
these W ords Aristorte does noc dens cho Heavens 1o be mored by a
Soul oE cheir oin, (Wtich is poluively astirmed by him clemtrere)
buE only by such aSoul, as Bould Violentty and Forcibly agitaLC, O
drire chem round, contrary co cheir onn Natural Inelination Where-
br in the mean cime, cher cended domnwards ot chemselves 1o-
Wards phe Cenere. And tis sence, concernins che Morion oF che
Hlcaveno
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