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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. IV. neither Theogonists, nor COlmogonists. 25
Candine hich, the Vrirer de Placitis Philosophorum, and S10-
baens, impute ehis Dorma oE the Worids Eternitr, 1ocertain ochers
OEtheCreek Philolophers betore Aristorle, (Besides Ocellus LucanUS-
Whois also actenomledsed by Philo tohare bcen an aMertor chereot.)
And indecd Epicharmus, chough a Theist, Peems plainly cohave been
OE ehis Perlvation, chat the WVorld was Vnmade, 25 al(0 TMac cherE
Wasno Theosonia nor Temporary Production oF che inferiour Gods, trom
chese Verses oF his, accordins e0 Grotius his Correction.
AN aci r0i Deoi raptOEEV VnEKITON SX NCoNONC:
Tadt si’aci ndecoB, opoia, di) e aursi aci.
AMa NEgcta p 1O TCETOV dEada  dEcV.
TES ); apazavor y and uunder WO S, H regroV ubROI.
Oun e ExonE regirov 3dt, 8dEua aia debrre 91
reor d y Cor aupas vor nego de Cist Eivac pMe rddE.
Nempe DI semper fuerunt, at que nunquam intercident:
Haec quae dico semper nobis rebus in iisdem se exhibent.
Extitisse sed Deorum Primum perhibetur Chaos:
Durnam verd? nam de nihilo nil pote primum existere.
Freo nec Primum profecto quieguam, nec fuit alterum:
Sed quae nunc sic appellantur, alia sient postmodum.
Where, chouph he retenomledoes chis co tave been che Generat
Tradition oE theancient Theists, Thac Chaos was betore cheGods, and
thac the Inferior Mundane Cods, had a Temporary Generation OF Pro-
duction mich the Worid, yet normichstandins does he conclude a-
sainst ic, From this Cround oF Realon, becaule Norhine conld procede
fromNothine, and cheretore, Boch the Gods, and indeed Wrhailoever
else is Substancial in the WVorid, was From Ecernier Clnmade, onty
che Fachion ot chinss havins been alcered.
Moreover Diodorus Sienlus aftirms, che Chaldeans litcewile tohave aC.
Certed chis Dogma oF theWVorlds Pternitr, oi siSV XaNSaio Tli poli 28 ub-
CuS Dbo aidior D_ CN EivaL n UNFE EE ae ZuE ECW Égnntva und VsceOY
D0oea SdEEEa. The Chaldeans affirm, the Nature of the Worid 10 be
Eternal, and that it mas neither Generate d from any Becinnine, nor will
ever admit Corruption. Who, thac they ivere noc Acheists For allchac
(nO more than Aristorle) appears From chose Folloming words oF chac
Hictoriorrapher, Elus 723  oncov raEIV 22 i Dhanb C un C, WV, Delae rui reovoia
rjovevat, n viv Exaesae p er 30qVd Wo cor, 8X cos ÉXEV, es adroua
rEG, aN coecopn TI nai PcCalis ninCCoen DeaV neIC, C, OEIZENEdaI.
They believe also, that the Order and Dispositionof the Worid, is by a
certain Divine Providence, and that every one of. those thines which
cometopass inthe Feavens, happens not by chance, but by a certain de
terminate and firmly ratisied fudement of the Eods. Homever, it is a
chins knonnto all, chac che Generaliey oF che later Platonits Rif
ly adhered ro sristorle in chis, neirher did cher onely allere theC or-
Porcal WVorid, rich all chc Inferior Mundane Cods in ic. e0 bC
aTSS, Or Ingenerate, and eo have existed trom Ecerniiy, but al(o
maintained che same concernins che souls of Men and alL other ani-
mals:
Excer P P. 478.