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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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Atheists TOnOanE Of C auSES. BOOK I.
Eelipses (For example) to be no Miracles, and render it probable,
that Thunder iS nOE the Voice of God almiehey tim(elE, aS It vere rOar-
ing abore in the Heavens, nicertr to afFrighe an d amaZC pOOF MOrtalS,
and make chem quakce and eremble; and that Thunderbolts are nO
there Rung by hisomn hands, as the diretul mellensers of his irath
and displeasure; they presently conclude triumphanels chereuxon,
concernins Nature Or Marter, thac it doth
ipsa sua per se sponte, omnia, Diis asere expers,
Do allthines alone of it self mithont a Cod. But we Mali here matie
it axpear in a Fem lostances as briesr as me may, thac Philosophy and
the True Knomledee of Canses, leads eo God; and that atheism is
nothine but renorance of causes and of Philosophy.
FOr Arst, no Atheist, Wto derives aIIErom senstesS AEOmS OrMatter,
is able co action any Carise at aIl oF HimselP, Or gire any erue acconnE
OF the Orixinal oF his omn sont or Mind, it beins uxterlr Elncori-
ceirable and Imposible, that sont and Mind, Sense, Reason and 2n-
derstandine, Mould ever arise From Errational and senstess Matter
horverer modihied; or resule trom atoms, deroid ot ail manner ot
Oualicies; chat is, Frommeer Maenitude, Fieure, Site and Motion ol
ParES. P’or chough it be indecd absurd EO CaV (aS These AFhEiCS
alledge) chiat Lanchine and Crgine Thines; are made out oE Lauchine
and ergine Principles,
Ft Kidere potest non ex Kidentibu factis e
Vet does it noc theretore Tollor, that sensitive and Rational Beines,
miphe result trom a Composition oE Trrational and senstess Atoms:
ertich accordins cothe Demoeritick Hypothesis, have nochins in chem,
but Maenitmde, Fieure, Site, and Motion, Or Rest. Becaule Lanshine
aud errine, arc Notions, Which resule from the Mechanism oF Clumiane
Bodies, in such a manver Orranized, buc sense aud Understandhns
are neither Local Motion, nOT Mechanism. Andthe Case will be che
very Came, Boch in the Anaximandrian Or Hylopathian, and in the
Stratonick Or Hylozoick Atheism, becaule sense aud conscions 2n.
derstandins, could no more resule, cicher trom thole Oualities ot
Hleat and Cold, Moist and Dry, contempered tOgetHer, Or From the
eer Oreanization oF nanimate and senstess Matrer, Fhan it couid
cromthe
Concursus, Motus, Ordo, Positura, Fienra,
OF Aoms devoia ol at e O Gualities. Fad There BCen ONCC
nochins but senstess Marrer, Fortuitonsty Moved, there could nere
have emerged into Beins, any soul or Mind sense and Understand
ne: Decauseno Efsect can pollibly cranscend che perfection OF its Cause.
VheretOre Acheilts suppOlinS Themselves, and all souls aud Minds,
Fo have sprunstrom srupid aud Senstess Marter; and all thât Wisdon
irhiek is ans irtiere in ehic Wortd, borti Politicat and Philosophical.
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