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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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Knomledee and Incellection,
BOOKI.
Bould ve not rest satisfied in this, as havins therefore a suffisient Knom
ledee hereos; out vould seek further after a Demonstration of it: sense
reachine only to singulars, but Knomledee t02 niversals. When Fron
the2 niversat Idea oF a Triangle, Wrhich is neither here, nOr therC, nOx
any irhere, wichont our mind, huc yec hach an Intellisible Entity; We
sec aplain necestiey chat ies Three Angles must be F qual to tmo Righe,
then do we knom che Truch oFchis 2niversal Theorem, and not betore:
as also we Ulnderstand, that crery Singular Friangle, (PoFar as ic is
eruC) hachchis Property in ic. Wheretore theKnomledee oF chis and
che like Truchs, is noc derived From singulars, nor dome arrive to
chem in way ol ascent, From singulars to 2 niversals, but on the con
trary havins first Found ehem in the2niversals, we ascermards Del
cendine apply etem to sinculars: (0 thac our Knomledge here i8
noc aster singular Bodies, aud Sccundarily or Derivatively From
them; but in order oF Nature, Besore chem, and Proleptical tothem.
Nom chese Vniversal Conceptions, Come oF which are allo abstrait
(a5 Lile, Sense, Realon, Rnomledse, and the like) many oF chem arc
oF such chings, whose Singulars do not at alI Fall under sense, wrhictu
theretore could never poltiblr be impressed uxon us, trom singular
Bodies by Local Nsotion: and again lome such, as chough cher bc-
lona to Corporeal and sonsible thines; vec, astheir ACcuraCy cannot bC
reachedto by sense, (0 neither did ther ever Exist in thac Matter Ot
ehis lomer orid irhich here encompasseth us, and theretore coule
not be Rampedupon us trom michout; asfor example cheIdcasot a
perfect strait Line, and a Plain supersicies, or ol an exact Triangle
Circle, Sphere, or Cube; no Macerial thins here amons st us beins ter-
minated in (0Strait Lines, but chat even by Microlcopes chere may
Be discorered much Irregularier and Deformity in them; and very
probable it is, thacthere are no Perfectly strait Lines, no Tuch Tri
aneles, Cireles, Spheres, Or Cubes, as ansver totheFxactnels oF Oux
Conceptions, in any part oF the irhole Material Elniverse, nOr never
will bC. Nocwichstandins hich, they are nOc absolute Non-Enti-
ties, since e can Demonstrate chines concernins chem, and thoust
cher never ere nor will De, vet arethey Possible to Exilt, Cince no-
Htiins ean Be Conceived, but it cither _s, Ox elle is Possibte to bC. ThC
Humane Mind chertore hath a Pomer OF Gramins Edeas aud Concepsi
ons, nOt ouly OF Wrhat ActualIy IS, buc al(o oF chinss irhich never
vere, nor pertiaps will be, cher beins ouly Possible tobe. But whem
Trom our Conceptions, re conclude of lome chines, thac though they
are NOL, Vet chey are Postible tobe; Since nochins chatIS nOE, Can bC
Possible to be, uness there be lomethine Actually in Being, wrhich hach
Custicient Pomer to produce it; we do Implicicely suppose, thC FX.
istence oF a Cod or omnipotent Beine thereby, which can makee Whac.
Toever is Conceivable, thoughit ret benOt, to Exist; and therelore
Macerial Triangles, Cireles, Spheres, Cubes, Mathematically F xact.
THCRCTIE OF what we have hicherto said is chis, chac Since Singi
lar Bodies, are nocthe only Objects oF our Mind and cositation.
havins also 2 niversal and abstract ideas, oF che Intellisible Natures O
Essences oE chingo; (some oE rhiet are such; rhose singulars do non
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