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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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CH AP. IV. ToMacerial, than 10Mental C aules.
Pover which orders al thines for the Best, (as havine saiuoni
Divine Force in it;) but thinkine to find ont an AClas far more Hron
and immortal, and which ean better hold all thines tosether; T0 3d aa
Dori 20 deor, 3de EWVsci, u EVVexCW. 600d and Fit, beine not able, in
their Opinions, 10 Hold, or Bind any Thins.
Frommhich paltase DE Platos wemay conclude, chatthoueh ana-
xagoras vere (0 Far convinced oF Theism, as in Profestion to male One
Insinite Mind che C ause OF aIl chings, Matrer ouly excepted, yet he
had nocmichstandins to0great a Tans oF chat old Material and athei-
stical Philosophy oE his Predecestors, Rill hansins about him, who
resolved all che Phaeromena oF Nature, into Physical, aud nochins in-
10 Nental Or Final Canses. And ve tave che rather 1old chis lone
Cory oE him, becaule it is (0 exaet a P’arallel wich ihe Philo-
Sophick Aumour oF lome inchis present AgC, Whio pretendins 10 aNert
a Cod, do nocwichstondins discard aII Mental and Final Cansalitr
trom havins any chins e0 do wich the Fabricle ot che World; and
resolve all, into Material Necessity, and Mechanism; intorortices, Clo-
buli and siriate particles, andche like. OF wtich Christian Philoso-
phers e must necds pronounce, chac ther arc noc near (0 800d Theists
as Anaxagoras him(elE as, choush (0 much condemned by Plato and
Aristorle; Foralmuch as he, did not only altert Godto Be che canse of
Morion, buc alto theGovernour, Resulator and Mechodizer ofche
Tame, For the production ot this Hlarmonious Syltem ofthe Worid, and
theretore 236 nal xaNCS airlxV, the cause of Wel and Fit. Whereas
chesc utcerly reject che Lacter, and, ouly admittins che Former, will
needs suppose Hearen and Carth, Planes and Animals, and all chinzs
Wrhatloever in ehiis orderly compases oF che Worla, to have resulced
icexly srom a certain Quantity of Motion, Or Asitation, ac FrsF imprCH
eduponthe Matter, and decermin d 10 rortex.
X Z XI. ThC ChronoloOY oF the old PhiloCophers havins sOme
uncertainer in it, ve Mall noc Scrupulousy concern our selves there-
in, but in the next place consider Parmenides, Zenophanes his Auditor
and a Philosophick Poet likemile, but irho convertins much wichtmo
Pythagoreans, Amenias and Diochates, Was theretore looke dupon as
one chac mas not a licele addicted to the Pythasorick Seet. Thacctis
Parmenides acknomledsed Mang Cods, is evident trom Whachachbeen
already cited out or him; nocmichstanding Wrhich he plainly alserred
alCo, One supreme, makcing him, 25 Simplicius cellS us, airiar DEcoV, the
Canseos al ihose other Gods, ot which Love is Caid to tave bcen Arst
produced. Which Supreme Deitz, Parmenides as well a5 Xenopha-
nes called, EV rd Hav, One that vas al, or the 2 niverse; buc addins
chereunto oF his omn, chacic was also animlor, immovable.
Nowthough it becrue, chiat Parmenides his Writings being noc wict
oue obscurier, IomeoE che Ancients, hovere lels acquainted ricti
Mletaphysical Speculations, un derHood hum Physically ; 25 iE he had a(-
Texted the whole corporeat 2 niverse, to be aIl but one Thine, and rhat
immovable, thereby destroyins cogether mith theDiversity oE chinso
ali morion, Mutation, and action; Whieh was plaiuly comakce Parme-
nides