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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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acts rithout animal Phaney, oWienOIC, Fxpress Con. sense, and C On
sciounels, and is devoid of Self. perception and Self. enjorment.
16. Whetherthis Fnerey of the Plastich Nature, be +0 be callec Coei
tation or no but a LoEomachy or Contention abont Words. Granted
that what moves Matrer Vitally, must necds doit by some Enerey os
its omn, distinct from Local Motion; but that there may be a simple
Vital Enerey, ithont that Duplicity Which is in Synalthelis, or clear
and expres Conscionsness. Nevertheless that the Fnerey of Nature mieht
be called a certain Drorsie, 2namakened, or Astonistid Coeitation.
17. Instances whichrender it probable, thatthere mar be aVit al Ener-
es miihout synasthesis, clear and express con sense, or conscionsness.
18. The Plastick Nature actine neither Lnorrinely nor Phantastically
acts FatalIY, Magically and SympatheticalIV. The Divine Pams ana
Fate, as to Marter; not mere Cositation in the Mind of Cod, but an
Energetick and Effectual Principle; and the Plastick Nature, te true
and proper FALE OE MAELCE, or the Corporeal Worid. What Masick
is and that Nature Which acts Fatally, acts also Maeically and Sym
pathetically. 29. Thatthe Plastick Nature, thoueh it be the Di
vine Art and Fate, yet for all that, it it neither Ood nor Goddels,
but a Lon and Imperseet Creature, it actins artificially and Rationalls
noothermise, than componnded Forms of Letters, uhen printins Co
herent Philosophick Sence, nor for Ends, than a Sam or Fatchet in
the hands of a shitsul Mechanick. The elastick and regetative Lisc
of Nature the Tomest of al Lives, and Inferiour to the sensitise.
Fieher Providence thanthat of the Plastick Nature eovernins the Cor.
Poreal Worid it self. 20. Normithstandins which forasmuch as the
elastick Nature is a Zife, it must necds belucorporeal. One and the
same thins, havine in it an entire Model and Platsorm, and actins
upon several distant parts os Matter at once coherently, cannot be Cor
poreal; and thoneh Arictorle no where declare whether his Nature be
Corporeal or Incorporeal (which he neither dothelearly concernins the
Rational Soul) and his Follomers conclude it to be Corporeal, pet accord
insto the very Principles of that Philosophy it must needs be othermise.
21. The Plastick Nature beins Incorporeal, must either be a Lomet
Pover lodeed in Souls thatare also conscions, sensitive or Rational;
or else a distinet substantial Fise by it sels, and Inferiour Kind os
Foul: Hou the Platonilts complicate both these rosether; with AF
Rocles agreeable Determination, that Nature is either Part of a Soulu
or not withont Soul. 22. The Plastick Nature asto animals, accordine
to Aristocle, a Part or Lorver Porver of their Respective Souls. Thal
the Phaenomena prove a Plastick Nature or Aretieus in animals, te
make mhich a. distinet thine from the soul, is to multiplu Entities
mithont necessity. The soul endued mith a Plastick Porver, Ihe chies
Formatrix of its oon Body, the Contribution of certain orher Causes
not excluded. 23. That besides that Plastick Principle in Parrientat
Animals, formine themas so many Zittle ir orids, tere is a General Pla
stick Nature in The mhole Corporeal 2niverse, which lihemise accord
ins to Aristorle is either a Part and Fover Pomer of a Conseion
Muridane Soul, or else somethine dependine on it. 24. Zhat no lessac
cordins to Aristocle than PlatO and SOCTATES, csr selves partake os
Tise from ihe Lise of ihe 2niverse, as vell as ne do of Hseat and Cold
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