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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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Ath. Arguments Against, an
BOOKI.
cothe Opinion OEsome, wonid ic not sollon Trom thence, chac Malter
Was Infinite, Eternal and Necessarilo Existent; not a5 iF Sbace OE Di
stansc, could Exist alone by iE SClE, an Accident ichout a substance
ic beino plaintr Impossible, thac Norhine Bould hare any Acci-
dents. Modisications, and attribures; Or DC Mensurable by Tards
and Poles; buc because this space is by them supposed, noc to bc
he Extension of Body, buc che Ensinite and2nbounded Lxtension ol
the Deity. Buc in the next place; IFSpace be concluded tO BC Cer.
cainly Nochins elle, buc the Exrension and Distance ot Body Or Mat-
ter, considered in General, (without respect corhis or chat pareicular
Body) and abstractly; in order cothe Conception ot Motion, and
the Mensuration OE thines; (Por space thus consider d, is Necessarits
immoveable, astothe Paris thereot respectively; as the Zwo Pxtreams
oE a Tard Distance, can never possibly come nearer to One another
ehen do we Cay thac there appearech ne Tufticient Ground For chis
Positive Tnfnitu oC space, we beins certain ot no more than this, chac
Bethe NVorid, or any Figurate Body, nerer so Great, it is not ln
posuble, buc thac ic mighe bestill Greater and Greater, withouc end.
Which Endesinite Encreasablenas oF Body and space, scems to be mi-
Raken Tor a Positive Insinity THCTCOF. WhereaS For this very ReaIOn
Because it ean never beso Great, but chat more Magnitnde may Bill
De added EO iC, cheresore can it never be Positively InEinite. Nor id
ehere perhaps (o preat an absurditu in chis, That Another Worid conld
nOE POMBIY BC made, a Mile Distant From chis; For as much as chere
Beino Noching berween chem, cher must necds Touch; Ox Thac this
Finite Worid conld have no Monntains and valleys, in the Pxceriour
Surtace oF ic, since ic mishr De cicher Spherical, Cubical or Cylindrical.
Or ot any ocher Recular Fieure, Wrhracloerer che Maker plealcdto
Form ic in. To conclude cheretore, by space withoue ihe Finite
worid, is to be Undercood, Nochine bueche Possibility os Body, Fur
eber and Furcher withour Lnd, vec lo as never toreach to insinity)
and sucha space as chis masthereallo, before chis WV orid was Created,
a Possibilit oF (0 much Body tobe Produced. But space and actuat
Distance, 25 really Mensurable by rards and eoles, choush ic may be
Crearer and Greater without end, Vet ean it not be Polucirelr Intinite,
(0as chat ehere consd beno more added to irs and therclore there can
Beno areument trom hence, toprove he Necessary Existence of Matter.
MOTEOVEN CHCEXistenCE OF a Deity mighE BC Surther Demonstrated.
Erom this Common Notion, That Nothine can come from Nothine Causally
Because iF ehere mereno God, as me could not have had any idea O
him, or a Perfect Beins, Ince it must have come from Nothine, anc
have Beenthe Idea or Conception OF Nothine; So neither conldthere
have been indecdanr Knomledse or Vnderstandine ac all. ForSingu
lar Bodies Existine Wichout us, cannot enter into us, and put CInder
ctandins in uS, nor is chere auy chinR BUL LOCal MIOTIONS DTOPABaLEC
tromthem co our Orpans oF Senle. The Mind muct have ils imme
diate Intelligibles, wichin ic sel(, For ochermile ic could nocpoltiblus
Undexstand any ching; ertich intellicibles and cheir Relarions to onc
DBOTHET. Or Verities, are (a5 was said BCFOrC) Eternal. MOTCOVEE, C
Mind can Trame Edeas or Conceptions, not onty ot chiines actually ex
istins
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