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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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CHAD. IV. and Mind, without a C aule.
cher connoc resule trom any Modisications Ox Contextures thereOF
ould plainly follon tromhence, chat God could noc Postibly mate
animals, or Produce sense and Understandine, souls aud Winds.
Which nevercheless chese Theists suppole him to have cione; and
cheretore oughe inreason to actenomledse him, noc only cobe the
Maher OE NeM ModisiCatiOnS OF Matter, (and one who BuilE the world
ouly a5 a Carpenter doth a Fou(C) but al(o oP Real Entities distince
tromche Pame.
And ehis wasthe very Doctrine (a5 we have already declared) OE
the moct Ancient atomick Physolosers; nOt That everus thine whatso-
ever mieht be Made ont of Pre. Pxistine Matter; but on che contrary.
thac in 3II Natural Generations, there isno Reat Entity Produced ont ot
ihe Master, Which as noc betore in ic, buc ouly Nem Modisications;
and Consequenely thac souls and Minds, beins not meer Modisications
OE MAECE; in respect oF Magnitude, Fisure, Site, and Motion, conld
never be Produced out ol ic, becaule cher mustthen oE necessier.
Come from Nothine; thatis, be Made cither by Themselves, ithont
Cause, or withont a sufficient canse. Tehath also been betorenored
out ol Aristorle, hon the oid atheistick Materialists, beins allaulted by
chole stalick Philosophers alter chac manner, chac Nothine wwhich man
noc betore, in Masrer, belides its Modisicarions, could Postibly bc Pro-
duccd out oF je because Norhine can Come out oF Nothine, aud conse-
quenclu ehac in alI Natural Generations and Corruptions, there ie no
Real Entity Made or Destrored; endearoured withour denvine cho
WordsoF thac Proposition, to Erade aster this manver, die 7870 37
Zveadat 3dE oiorta, 37E à nOMVaaI, 115 Y TOIQVTHS DVOECIS aCI OWOZOMEIS,
oCine 3 7 ZCMCdrn, XC. That ihere is indeed Nothine Generated or
Corrupted (insome sense) for as much as the same substance of Matter
alvays remains, it beine never Made nor Destroyed. For as men de
not say, that Soerates is Made, wohen heis Made Musical or Fandsome-
nor Destroyed, when he looseththese Dispositions, becanse the subjeit S0-
erates, mas before and still remaineth: so neither is ang substantiat
thine or Rea l Entitr in the vorld Made or Destroyed in this sense; because
Matrer which is ibe substance os all. perpernally remains, aud all Octiex
ChinssWhatsoever, are buL ne du n EsAS ny due dé C d5. Passions and af-
fections and Dispositions thereos, as Muticalness and EImmulicalnets, im
respect oE Socrates. Which is aIl one as if chey ould Pay, thac alI
etiingo whathoever besides Maccer, beins buc Accidents chereot, are
Generated out oF it and Corruptible into ir, withont che Production
DE any Real Entisy ouc oE Nochins, or the Reduction oF anx into
Nochins, (0 lone as che Substance or Masrer Which is che ouly Reat
entity, remains alrars che Pame. Whereforechoush Tise, sense, and
Onderstandine, alI Souls and Minds, BC Generated Out OE Matter, Vet
does icnoc Pollon From thence, chac cherefore there is any Real Entity
Made or Produced, because chele are Nochins bur accidents and Mo-
disieations OE Master. This was ehe Subtertuse oF che OId Ey lopa-
chian Atheists.
No ic is true indeed, thac Whacloerer is in che llniverle, is cither
Dubstance or accidents, and chat che Accidents oE any Substance, may Bc
Generatec