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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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Souls Substantial, SE on oitcor
and Essential to no more. But as For all ocher chinss, whieh are iI
ehcir omn Nature, Contingently Possible toBe or WOc tobe, Realom
PrONOUnCES OF Them, that chey conld nOt Pxist Os themselves Neces-
sarily. buc were Cansed by Something elle; and derived cheir Orixi
nal, From chac One absolutely Perteet, and Necessarily Existent Beine.
Sochac platos Distinction must necds be here allomed ot, betwixt
TvOKinds OE BCinAS, 20 per aci dv, geveov; sn Ezo, That which al-
mays 15, and mas never Made, nor had Beginning; and ro ZtvouucvoV per
v sdenon, That hich as Made, or had Beginning, but never Truly
15. IE travino nOC a Permanent DUE SucCelsive OE Flovine Duration-
Accordino (v Whereunco, Aristorle also afTirmetH; That there is no ne-
cessity, al thines Bould be Onmade or Self. Originated; but somethines
mieht be Made fromothers Onmade.
Lastly, we Mall disprove the Truch oE chis APertion Thac mhat.
soever substantially and Realty 15, did P xist OF ir selE from alt Fternity
Onmade, dEcex ehis manner. Because ic would Follon trom thence
Chacnoc ouly Marter, and EInqualiticd AIOmS, (as che Democritick
alheists suppO(C) but allo Souls, especially sumane, mult needs tave
Exilted Of themselves t00, From Eternity Vnmade. FOr aS HO am
eon be (0 Corristr, as co conceire HimselE, or Thac wrhich Thinkect in
nim, tis Orn Soul or Mind, and Pertonaliey, eo be no Real Encier;
Nhilst every Clod oF Farth is such; Co is ic certain that Mind can
Revex De GeneratCd OUF OF Dead and CenAeIS Master Ox BOdy, HOF
Retule as a Modisication CherCOE, Out OE Magnitudes, Figures, Sites.
and Motions, aud cheretore must needsbe a Thine Really Distinet
Hom ic, or substance incorporeal: che Demoeritick Acheilts beine
here grolly deccived, in chintins, thac because Forms and gualities
l Bodies, max bo resolved into thole forementioned Elements OF
Maner, ard consequenely concluded to beno Entities Really Distinit
om che Substance CHCrCOF, buc only disterent ModiticatiOnS OF che
lame, chac cheretore the like may be Paid oF souls to0, the Rationat
hocexcepted. Wheretore iE no substance or Real Entity could crer
Se brouxhc OuE OF Non-Existence into Beins, or be cansed by any
Chins else, then must aII Humane souls and personalities, a8 ell as
Maiter and aroms, trave existed not only (rom Eternisy, without be.
vinuins. but 2ICO OF chemselves Independent ly uxon any ocher chins.
Surche Acheists are Co abhorrene trom chis Eternisy oF Hlumane Souls.
chiac chcy vill by no means admic of cheir Post. Existence Or Immor-
calitu; ehcy apprehendins, chat iE ans Fivine Vnderstandine Beine,
hould prove immorcal, chey could noc sutticieny secure chemselves
aint ihe Possibiliiy and Dauser oF a Cod. Some Theists indeed have
allerred xternitarem animorum, not only chePre. Existence, but alto
he Piernity of alt Humane Minds; copechier wich che Worid, a5 Cicere
more chanonce doch; Who also in his Bool oF Divination chus Further
declares him selE concernins ic; animus quia vixit ab omni sEternitate.
Cersarusque est cum innumerabilibus animis, omnia quae in natura rerum
sunt videt; our Mind, because it hathexisted from all Eternity, and
Conversed mith innumerable minds, secthall thines that are in Nature:
nd axain, cum animi hominum semper fuerint fucurique sint; Since
de Minds os Men ever vere, and ever will be. Neveriheless nonc oE
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