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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. Arh. Incor. Space, Non Senle.
chese in our Days, ctac Body, Or chac Whichis Zansible and Divil.
ble, is che Ouly substantiat Ihine, trom Whence ic Eollons, chac an
incorporeal substance vould be the Pame rich au Incorporeal Body, 1. e.
an impossibiliey, and chatthere ean beno Incorporeal Deity.
But in cheManarement oE chis cause, there hath been Pome Dica
Greemene amonest The Athessts chemselves. FOr FirIt, che Democri
tichs and Epicureans, chouxh consentins with all the ocher Atheists
in ehis, Thacwhacloerer as Dnextended, and devoidof Maeninde
Was chereFOre Nothins; (P0 chac chere could neither Be, any sub-
stance, nOr Accident Or Mode OF any Substance, 2 nextended) did
nocwichstandins distinguist concernins à Donble Nature. FirI.
Chac intrich is (0 Exrended, a5 to bc impenetrable, and Tangible
Or Resist ihe Touch, Wtrich is Body. And Sccondly, Thac wrhich is
Extended al(o, but Penetrably and intansibly, Wrtrich is SpacC OT Va
cuum: aNature, accordins cothem, really distinet From Body, and
che onty incorporeat Zhins chat is. Nom since this space whict ie
ihe ouly incorporeal, can neicher Do nor suffer any chins, buc only
rive Place or Room to Bodies eo Subilt in, or Pals choroueh, chere-
ore can chere noc be any active, Understandine. Incorporeat Deity.
Chiisis che argumentation oF che Demoeritick atheists.
To which ine Reply; That iE Space De indeed a Nature distinct
rom Body, and a Thing Really Incorporeal, as chey pretend, then will
uc undeniabiy follon trom this verr Principle ot cheirs, thac chCre
must be incorporeat substance; and (ehis space beins suppoled by
ehem also co be Infinite) an Infinite Incorporeal Deity. Becaule il
DPaCC BC nOL thC Extension OF Body, nOr an Affection ThereOF; TheM
mult ic oE necestuer be, cicher an accident Existine alone by it selF,
tontout a substance, hich is imposTible; or else the Extension OL
affection, OE some ocher incorporeat substance, that is infinite. BUI
here will Cassendus Rep in, Wo help out his 8o0d Friends, the Demo-
ritichs and Epicureans, ae a dead Lisc; and undertakee to maintain.
nac chouxh space be indeed an incorporeat Thins, yet it mould nei-
Cher Pollon OE neceCTIEy trOm chenCE, chat it is on Incorporeat Sub-
stance Or Afection THCTCOE, HOr y et that ic is an accident, Exittins 2-
loneby ic selE ithout a substance; becaule chis space is really, nei-
cher Accident, nor substance, but a certain Midale Nature or Essence
berwixc Boch. Towhich Subcertuse oF his, that WC May nOE quar-
rel about WVords, e Mall makce chis Reply; Thac unquestionably.
VhaEsOever I5 or harh any kind oE Entity, doch cicher SubSC
y ic selE, or else is an Astribuse, Affection, Or Mode, OE lomettiine
ihac doch Subsist by ic sels. For IE is Certain, That chere can benO
Mode, Accident, Or Assection, oF Nochins; and consequemly, ChaE
Aochins CanHOEDC Extended, nOr Aensurable. But iE Space BC nei
Cher che Pxsenscon OE Body, HOE vet oE Substance Incorporeal, tHem
multic OE nececTuY BC, Che Extension OF Nothine, and che Affection
de Nochins; and Nochins must DC Mensurable by Tards aud Poles.
Veconclude cheretore, Thactrom ehis very Hypothesis oF the Demo-
ritick and Epicurean Atheists, thac space is a Nature distinet trom
Body and Posirively Ensinite, ic Follons undeniably, that chere must BC
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