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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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Mind Depretiated; and the Scale B0OKl.
omnomnipotence, or all Possibilities os thines, cogether wichche BeH
Platform oF chewhole, and poducins che lame accordinsly.
But ic beine plain, chac chere are belides singulars, other objects
OF ehe Nind Dniversal3 From whence it scems t0 FolloW, chac
Sensibles, are noc che ouly Thines; Fome Modern Atheistick Wits,
havecheretore invented, this surcher derice eomaintain the C ause,
and carry che Butine(s OM; That 2 niversais are nochins elSC BUE
Names or Words, by irtrich singular Bodies are called, and Conse-
quenelr, chac in all Axioms and Propostions, Sencencious affirmati-
ons and Necations (in irtrich che Predicare ac leastis 2niversat) we
do bue Add or Subltract, ARirm OF DenY, NameS OE Sinentar Bodies:
and chat Reason orSyllosism, is Nochins bue che Reckonins Ox Compu-
tine. ehC Consegnences OF chele Names Or Words. Ncicher do chey
rane che Impudence, eo AAiem, chac belides thole Passions or Phansies,
ertrich we have from chinss by Sense; we knom Nochins at aIL os a
ny chins, buc omly che Names, by which ic is called. Then wtich
chere cannoc be a greater Sortistness Or Madness: POr it GcOmetrr,
vere nochine buc the Knomledee ot Names by irtrich Singular Bodies
are called, as it PelF could noc deserve chat Name oF a Science; l0
neither conld iis Fruchs be chesame in Greek and in Latine: andGc
ometricians, in all che several distant Ages and Flaces oF thC World,
must be suppoled cohare had, thelame Singular Bodies betore them,
OErhich chey afirmed and Denied, chole 2niversal Wames.
In che Last place, che xpicurean and anaximandrian Acheiss, a
Grecably coche premised Principles, and che Zenor OC cheir Hypothe-
sis, do boch oF chem endearour eo Deprecioce and Ulnderralue,
Knomledee or Vnderstandine, a5 a chins irhich harh noc any Hieher
Decree ot perfection Or Entrey in ic, chan is in Dead and senstess Mat-
ter. Ie beins accordins1o chem, buc e Passion From singular Bodies
Existine withour, ond cheretore Boch Junior, and inferior to them;
a Tumuls raised in the Brain, by Mocionsmade upon ic, From the Ob.
decto oE Sense; That wrhich P Sencially includech in ic, Dependence
upon Somechine elle; at best, bue a Thin and Fvanid Imase OF Senst
bles, or racher an Tmaee DE those Tmaees oF sense; a meer Whistine
and Phantastick ching; upon irtrich accoune chey conclude it, not
sic co be actribuced to chat erhich is che First Roet and Sourse OF aII
chings, ehich chereore is cochemno other, than Grave and solid,
Senstess Master; ehe onty substantial, Sels. Existent, Independene
ching and Consequenetr che most persect and Divine. Lise and Vn-
derstandine, sont and Mind are cochem, no simple and Primitive
Natures, buc secondary and Derivative, or Spllables aud complexions
OE chines, which Sprunx up ascermards, Erom certain combinations
DE Maenitudes, Pieures, Sites, and Motions, Or Contemperations ol
Qualities; Contextures cicher oE Similar or Dissimilar AEomS. And
as chemselres are Juniors eo Senctels Master and Motion, and eo thole
Tnanimate Elemenis, Fire, Water, Aix and P arcH, che First, avd MOIE
Keal Productions OE Nature and Chance; P0 are cheir Pssects, and the
Thinss chac belons co chem, comparacively wich chose other Reat
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