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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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HAP. IV. Final C ausal. no Idolum SpecuS.
nochins vere done cherein For Ends Intended By a Fieber Mind, ther
ic che very spirit of atheism and Insidelity. IE isnO Edol OE thC
CaDC OF Den (FO WSe that Affected Languase) chatis, DO Prejudice, Or
Fallacy impole d upon oux selves, From the actriburins our oin ani-
maliss Properries, tothines withont us; eo chinte chac the Frame and
System oF this hole Worid, mas contrired by a Perfect Vnderstand-
ne Beins or Mind (non alto pretidins over che Came) whict hact
every here printed che Sienatures oE its onn Wisdom uxon thc
Matter. A5 al(0, that etiousk Nature it PelF do noc properir intend
vet it aeteth accordins co an Intellectual elatform PreleribedtoiE, 25
Deins che Mannary Opificer OF the Divine architectonick art, or ehis
Art iETeIE aS it lvere Transfused into the Matter and Embodied in it.
Chusciceros Balbus lons since declared concernins it; that it WaS
nOc, Vis quaedam sine Ratione, ciens Motus in Corporibus Necessarios:)
sed vis particeps ordinis, tanquam sia proerediens; enjus solerriam
nulla ars, nemo arrisex consequi potest imitando; Not a force 2neyi-
ded by Reason, Excitins Necessary Motions in Bodies Temerarionsty; but
such a Force as partakes of Order, and proceeds asit vere Methodically:
obose cunnins or Ingeniosity, no art or Humane Opisicer ean possibli
each to by Emitation. For, it is altogether Enconccirable, hon ve
Due Selres tould have Mind and intention in us, vere there none
in che Universe, or in chac Fiehest Principle Erom which all proceeds.
Moreover ic mastruly attirmed by aristorte, thacthere ismuch more
Se Art in POme OF che chinss OE Nature, chan chere is in any chinc
arrisicially made by men; and cheretore Intention, Or Finat and
Mtental Cansality, can no more be secluded trom che consideration ot
datural, chiam ic can sromehatoE artificial thines. Nom it is plaim
hac Thines artisicial, 2s a Houle or Clock, can neither be Under-
lood, nor any erue Cause of them altigned, without Desien, Or In-
ention Tor Ends and Cood. For co Cay, thac a Ftouse, is Stones, Tim-
der, Mortar, Tron, ClasS, L. Cad, 8c. all puttozether, is nottogive
Detinicion chiereot, ox to cell whacindeed ic is; it beins such an
Apc Dispolition oCall chese Materiols, as may makce ux che whole tit For
labination, and the2 ses oF men. Wherctore chis is noi CufficienelY 10 a(.
hen ihe Cause oEa House neicher; tOdectarE OUE OF What Ouarry thC
Sionesvere duxg, nor in What WVoods or Forels the Timber mas FclI.
d, dud che like: NoraS Aristorle addeth, cins 7 roizor juyuinadaet EE Nat. Avs
Malune vopiloi, dnr ree pete Baeea xeerco ENE DEeada, Ta y 18 pa 67  NO. L. 2. c. 9.
nS. did oi niBo p naerco n DeptNIa, i 3 In aiveo diee Tiv nspSTura 672.
ANiC) pahisC rà EbRa: NSPSTaTa rde. Is any one sould eo abont thui
sive an acconnt os a Fonse from Material Necessity (as che Acheistick
hilolophers chen did oF che Worie aud che Bodies oF Animals) That
de Heavier thines beine carried donnnvard of their oun accord, and
beLiehter uxuard; therefore the stones and Fonndation lay at the
boltom, and the Farth for the Walls beine Liehter was Fieher; and the
imber beine et Liehter, Hieher than that; but above allthe Stram or
harch, it beins ihe Lishtest of all: Nor laCly, it 25 che Came Aristotle elle-
phere also lusgestech, onestionld Furcher pretend, chat a Hloule was
herctore made such, exneooit 9 28 oeroers, ecc. meerly because the
lands of ihe Labourers, and the Axes, and Hammers aud Trovels.
ne oltier instruments, Chaneed all cobe moved (0 an d (0. We Cay
hae