# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0845 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0845?run=74 # Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137) # Folio 825, page id 1066509719:0845 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=1066509719&page=845 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/1066509719/jpgs/default/00000845.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 54 lines, status machine # Lines: 54 recognised, mean confidence 0.90 # 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. L A AP. Y. Enexcended, In Cs must perceive one Part of the Object, and another another; and nothine in TI ibe Whole sensible: just as it PMould havethe sense of one thine. and ron os anocher. Whereasit is plain by oux internal sense, Thac it is One and che SelF same ching in us, which perceires, both the Paris and chenhole. And oF chesecond, hevritech in chismanner ci) onsr raevnis acaroela. e5 andeg daeciodat 28 AEqDSS EVnOT(C) aenciess n acodCAS nad éxasor aiadnror oguenorto glreadat Enesco ojo avre anćess er r erporr isr cintras. But is every Part of theEx- tended Soul, perceive tho Whole sensible Object, since Maenitude is Infi- nitelu Divisible there must be in every man infinite sensations, and Ima- ses of one andibe same Object. Whereas e are lntimarely Conscious 10 our selres, That me hare buc omly One Sensation ot One Object at chelame cime. And as For che Third and Last Part oF the Disjuneti. on Thac wrhat Sensibly Perceires in every one, is but One Single Poine, cicher Mathematieal or Physical. IEis certain GrIE chat a Ma- thematical Point, havins neicher Longitude, Lacicude, nor Profun. diey isno Body nor Subltance, but ouly a Nocion ot our onn Mind. Or a Mode oE Conceivins in us. And chen as For a Physical Point Or Minimum, a Body C0 Liule chac chere cannoc postibly bc any Lels Plotinus asTertins the Infinite Divisibilisy ot Body, here explodes che thing ic selF. Homever heturcher intimates. chac IF chere vere any Cucti Physieat Minimum, or AbColurely LeaA Body Or Extensum, chis could noc postibly receive upon ic a Diltinet Representation and Deli- neation, oFaII che sereral Parts oF a Whole Visible Object at Once, a8 OE cheCres, Nose, Mouch, e c. in a mans Face or Pictures or oE thePar- ticularities oF an P difice: nor consd such à Parvitude or atom a5 chis. beche Cause oE all Animat Motions. And this was onc ol Aristotis Arxumenis, Wwhereby hevould prove 2 nextended Incorporeals, nisc apreci rd pre sdv. I5 the soul vere Indivisible as a Point, hor could it Perceive, that Which is Divisible E chat is, talce notice oC aII che Diltinet Parrs oF any Extended Object, and have a Deseription OF ehe whole OF CheM AE OnCC UPOn it SCIE. ThC Sum OF che whole Arpumentation is chis, ThacIF che Soul bc an Extended substance ehen must it oE necectuey be cither a Physical Point or Minimum, ehc Leas Extensum chac can postibly be, (it chere beanx such L. ealt, ane Body or Extention DC not Insinitely Divisible) or else it must contC OE more sueh Physicat Points, Joyned together. AsFor theFormer oF chese, ic hach been already declared co be impostible, thac one Sinele atom, Or Smallest Point oE Extension, Mould be able distinctly c0 Per- ccive all che varieer oF chings: 10 which mishe be added, Thac1O suppose everr Soul eo bebut one Physical Minimum, Or Smallest EX tensum, is to imply such an P. Sential Difference in Maccex or PXten(I on as chac (ome oF che Points chereot, Bould be Naturally devoid ot all rife, sense, and Vnderstandins, and ochers asain Naturally sen- sitive and Rational. Whieh Absurdiey chouph ic Mould be admit led, yec vould it be utterly Enconccirable, hon chere Mould come 1obc, One such sensitive and Rational Acom in every man and no more, and hon chis ould constanely remain che lame, trom Intancy OOId. AsC, whrilE OcheT PANES OF Matter Franspire perpetually. BUT aS FOr che Latter; IE Souls bc Excended Subltances, consictine E Moro Points, one rithout anocher ; aII Concurrins in every sen- sation.