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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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Deitu Crumbled into Matter
ex che Product hereoF) chouxti wichout any animat conseionsnes:
and SclF. Perception.
Buc as nochine can bemore Prodigiousty Absurd, chan chus 1oat
tribure Infallible Omniscience, t0 every Arom OE Matter; (0is ic 2ISo
directly Contradictious, co suppole persect Knomledee, Wisdom, or
Onderstandine, withoue auy consciousness or SeIE Perception; Consci-
onsness beine P. Nencial eo Cositation: as allo, chat che substantial and
Fundamentat Lise in men and ocher Animals, Mould never Perist.
and vet Nocwithstandins cheir Souls and personalities, in Death, VE.
texly vanist inco Nothins. Moreover chis Hypothesis, can nerer polH-
BIy Salve che Phaenomenon OE Nsen and animals neither; noconlv
Becan(e no Organization OF ModisicatiON OF Matter Whatsoerer, coulc
erer produce conscionsness and SelE. Perception, in Wvhat was betore
Inconscious; buc allo becaule every Smallest atom chereot beine suppo-
Sed 1obe a Pereipient by it selF, and cohave a Persect Lise and Vnder-
Rtandins oF iis omn, there must be in erery one Man and Animal, noE
onc, buc a Fcap or Commonvealth oE innumerable Percipients. L. aCIY
Whereas chese Hylozoick atheists, make every Atom OEMatter Omnisci
ent bue nochins ac all Omnipotent, or altert Persect Knom ledee, wichoue
any perfect pover, a lnomledse without sense and Onderived Fron
Sensibles; re demand oE chem, irhere che intellisibles, or Objects
OCchis Znomledee are d and irhence cheTdeas chereotare derired FOr
since cher procced noc in a may oFPassion Erom Sensibles Exictins wich.
ouc, nor could resuletrom chole Acomsneither as Comprehendine
themsetres; cher must necds Come From Nothine, and manV OE
ehem at least, be che Conceptions of Norhine. There cannOt posIbIy
be any ocher Original by chewic or man devised, oF Knomledee aud
Onderstandine, chan trom an absolutely perfect and Omnipotent Beine,
Comprehendins it selF, and che PXIent oF irs oWn Insinile Pover, OE
aIl Possibilisies oE chings, chac is, aII intelligibles. But chere cam
Be buc one such Omnipotent Beine, and cheretore no more, than
One orieinat, and eternal Dnmade Mind, trom irhence aIl che o.
cher Nincs are Derived. Wheretore chis Hylozoick Atheism, is nO-
thine buc che Breakine and Crumbline oF che Simple Deity, One Per-
Ecct Cnderttandins Beins, into Marter, aud all etle several Atoms
DE iC
And non hare we made ic manisest, chat these AcheistO, are [O FAF
trom beine able codisprove a Ood, Fromchis Zopick oF Cogitation
Knomledee or Vnderstandine, chat they cannoc postibly Salve che
Phaenomenon chereot, without a Ood; ic indeed attordins lnvincible
Areumens oE his Existence. FOF FirH; IF no Lise OE Cogitation.
Soul or Mind, can possibly Sprins out oE Marter or Body, deroid ol
Eise and Vnderstandins; and irtrichis nochins but a Thins EXten-
ded, inco Leneth, Breacth and Thickness; then isit (o tar Crom beine
True, chac aII Fise and Vnderstandine is Junior to Senstess Matrer
and ihe OH. sprins chCrCOT; chat oF necestuy, cither all Lives and
Souls, vere Sels. Existent From Eternity, Or elle chere mult Be One
Persect Onmade Lise and Mind, Crom wtence all octer Enperseet ones
vere derired: chere must be an Eternal Lnomledee, belore Sense anc
Sensibles: