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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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H A P. III
sromthe Hleat and Cold of ihe Dviverse; srom whence it appears, Ihat
Ariltorle also held the worids Animation, with further Ondeniable
Proos thereos. An Ansiver to Tvo the most considerable places of that
Philosopher that seem 10 imply ihe contrary. That Aeistocles First
Immoreable Mover, mas no Soul, but a Perfect intelleet abstrait
srom Matter, but that he supposed this to move onty as a Final Caule,
or as beins Loved, and besides it a Muncane Soul and Placticte
Nature, 1o move ihe Heavens Ffficientty. Neither AristOLes Na-
ture nor his Mundane Soul the Supreme Deity. Hovever, thoneh
there be no suct Mundane Soul as both Placo and Aristocle, con-
ceived, yet notwithstandine there may be a Plastick Nature dependins
upon a Hieher Intellectual Principle. 25. No impossibility os some o-
ther Particular Plastick Principles; and thoueh it be not reasonable
to think, that every elant, Verb, and eile os Orass hath a elastick
or Vecetative soul os ilsomn, nor that the Farth is an animal; yet
that there may possibly be one Plastick Inconscions Nature, in the
Whole Terraqueous Clobe, by whieh recetables may be severally oreani-
Zed and sramed, and allthines performed which transcend ibe Porver
of tiortnitons Mechanism. 26. Our second Ondertahine which was
tosem hor erosty those atheists. (who actnomledee this Plastick Na-
ture) Misunderstand it and abuse ihe Notion, 10 mahe a Counterseit
Cod almistrer or Numen of il, 1o the exclusion of the True Deity.
First, intheir supposine that to be the F irst and Lliehest Principle of 1e
Dniverse, which is the L. ast and lomest of all Lives, a thine as Eessenti-
ally Derivative from, and Dependent upon a Hieher Intellectual Prin-
ciple as the Fecho on the Orisinal Voice. 27. Seconcly, in their
matiine sense and Reason in animals to Fmeree ont of a Senstess Lise
os Nature, by the mere Modisication and Oreanization os Matter. That
no Duplication of Corporeal Orsans, can ever mahe One sinele Incon-
Scions Cise, 10 advance into Kedoubled conscionsness and Self. enjoy-
ment. 28. Thirdly, in attributine Perfect Knomledee and Vnder-
Standine 1othis Tise of Nature, whichyet themselves suppose to be de-
voidos all animal sense and Conscionsness. 29. Lastly, in makine
the Plastick Tise of Nature to be merely Corporeal; the Hylozoists con-
tendins that it isbut an Inadequate Conception of Body, as theonly
Substance, and fondly dreamine, that the rulear Notionof Cod, is no-
thine but such an Inadequate Conception of the Matter oF the Whole 2.
niverse, mistaten for a Complete and entire substance by it sels, ihc
Eause of alt Thines.