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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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Nature, borh Mechanicaland V ical. B0OK I.
could have been mantini, wichoue rendering che whole Tnept Or
2 seles; I Pay, to chinke, chat al chele chinos Bould Flappen by
Chance to be Thus made in every onc and the lame Animal, and noc
Desiened by Mind or Conncel, thac they mighe joynely coneur and
Contribure co che O00d oF the Whole; This argues che greatest In-
sensibility of Miind Emacinable. Buc this Absurd and Ridiculous Conceit
hath been lons since (0 industriousy Consuted, and che folly rhereot
(0 Fully manifelted, by chac learned Pagan Philolopher and Phylici.
an Calen, in his B0OlOFche TIsC OF Parts, chat it mould bc altogethex
Supertuous coinsilt any more upon it.
WNHCrCTOrC ChaL thC Former Zeeth are made Thinand Sharp, and
the Jam Feeth Thiek and Broad, by Chance only, and nOL For 2 se.
vas one ofthe Democritick Dotages; a5 also Thac nochinq in thC
Clouds and Mleceors, was intended For che Good oF chis Hlabirable
Farch, wichin whole armo sphere chey are contained, but aIl pro-
ceceded trom Material and Mechanicat Necessity. Which Conceit,
Chovoh Cartestus Peem to have rieten his irhole Bool OF MCtCONS
in Favour OE, he beginnine ic with che Derision o thole,
Who seat God in the Clonds, and imasine his hands to be Employed,
in openine and putrine the cloisters of the Winds, in sprinkline the
lovers with ders, and thunder strikine the Zops of Mountains; and
closins his Discourse wich ehis B0aC; thac hehad non madeic mani-
Fest, There mas no nccdto sy to Miracles, (thatis, to Brins in a Cod
upon the Stase) to Calve thole Phaenomena; yet vere it catie enough
eo demonstrate, the Defectiveness oF thole his Mechanieal Vnder-
tahines, in Cundry particulars, and to evince thac aIl chole chinge
could noc be carried on rith such constant Regularier, by Mcer
Fortuitons Mechanism, ichoue any superiour Principle to suide and
Ecer them. Neverthelels e actenomledsc, thac God and Nature do
chinos every irhere, in che most Frusal and compendions may, and
ich che least Operoseness, and theresore thac the Mechanick Povers
are not rejected, buctaken in, (0 Far as chey could comply service
ably with ehe intellectual Modet and Platsorm. BucCill 10, 25chat aIL
is superrised by One Onderstandins and intendins cause, and no-
chins passes, without Eis approbation; Who when cithee chole
Mechanick Porvers CaIl BHOTE, OF IHC Stubborn Necessity OE Matter PrOVCS
uncompliant, does orer rule che same, and supplr che Defects chereot,
brchac Wrhich is Vital; and thac mithont seccing his omn Flands imme
diacels coevery worte c00; chere beins a subservient Minister undet
him, an Artisicial vature, Wrhich as an Archens oF the Whole morid
SOverns the Fluctnatine Mechanism chereot, and does all chings Faith
sully, For Ends and Purposes, Intended by its Director.
Buc our Atomick Atheists AilI Surcher alledse, Thac chough ic mishe
Well Ceem Atrange, that Marter Forruitonsty moved, Mould at there-
ry Frst jump, tall inco such a Recgular Frame as this is, havins so many
Apritudes Tor EITes, Comany Correspondencies becween several thins5,
and such an agreeine Harmony in the wwhole; vec ougHFit nOLtO lCCM
ajocstranse, it aroms by Motion, makcins all posible combinations
and Contextures, and eryins all mannex oF conclusions and Experi-
ments.
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