# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0763 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0763?run=74 # Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137) # Folio 743, page id 1066509719:0763 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=1066509719&page=763 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/1066509719/jpgs/default/00000763.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 51 lines, status machine # Lines: 51 recognised, mean confidence 0.91 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. CH A P. IV OfDouls, from thaterinciple. Norid, wichont che Production OF any Ne ReaL EntIty. MaD times the very CamC Numerical MateF, neither more nor letS ouly differencly Modisied. Cautins very different Phantasms in 15, Whieh are cheretore vulgarly suppoled tobe Forms and duali- ties in the Thines; 25 Whenthe lame mater, is succestively changed and transformed into Vapour, Snon, Fail, and Sec. ABd to chis ve- purpole is che Forementioned similicude elegancly pursued by che Epicurean Poer, in these Tollomins V ertes, Duin etiam refert nostris in Versibus ipsis, Cum qnibus quali (int Ordine quaeque locata. Namque eadem Calum, Mare, Terras, Flumina, Soleme Sienifieant, eadem Fruees, arbusta, Animantes. sic ipsis in rebus item jam Materiai Concursus, Motus. Ordo, Positura, Fieurae, cum permutantur, mutari kes quoque debent. For vere chole supposed Forns and Qualities, produced in Generari- onsand alterations, Entities Keally distinet trom the substance ot Marter, or is different Modisications, in respect oE ehie Magninde rsure, Site, aud Morion OF PArES; (there beine noluch chines BC- lorc In. Existins as Anaxagoras supPOSec,) then vould they MateriaL yprocccd Trom Norhine, Whichisathins impostible. And chis Dis- umilar Aromology oF che ancient stalicks, (0 Far a8 to thele Materiat Forms and Qualities, Scemsto be Undoubredly che only true Physio- 8y, ic beins builcuxon chis ture Principle, OF RcaIOn, That BC- Cause Norhiins can sive mhat it hath not, LhErCFOrENO Nem Substance Or Real Entity, can De Materially produced, in che Generations aud Alte- rations oE Nature, as Tueh; but omly Modisications. As wtien an archi- et builds a Houle, or a Wcaver makces a piece oF Cloch, chere is on- y adistererit Modification oF che Prae. Existent Matser. This is che First Improvement, wtich che Ancierie Halick Philoso- pbers made, oF this Principle. Thac Nothine ean be (Physically and Materially) Generated ont of Nothine; Or that no Real Entity is Naturally Generatedor Corrupted; That cheretore the Forms and qna- lities oE Bodics, Were no Keal Cntities, buc omly Difterent Modisica- tions. Buc belideschis, cherc was also another chins, wtich these ehiilocophers principally Aimed ac herein, as à Corollary deducible lrom chie Tame Principle, concernine Souls; That since che souls of A. nimals, F. specially Humane, are unquectionably Entities Really di- linet trom Master, and allits Modisications; (no Maenitudes, Fieures Sites and Motions, beins ever able to beget cositation Or Conscions nes, much lels a Porer ot Onderstandine Eternal Verities) Chat chere- tore chese conld not be Generated out oE Matrer, nor Corrupted in- 2o che Pame. Because Forms and Qualities are Concinually Genera- red and Corrupted, made out oF Norhins, and Reduced to Nothine g- exin; Cherelore are ther no Entities Rcally distinet Trom Master, and is difterent Modisications: but because souls, at leaH Humane, arc inquestionabiy lntities Reallu distinet From Master, and alL ils Modi- eations; cherctore cau chey noc postibiy be Generated our ot Mas- P. 19.