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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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The Vastnels ofrhe Llniverle
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ficer would not make alt thines in an animat to be Eyes; so neither has
the Divine N0YO. or Spermatick Reason of ihe Worid made althines
Cods; but some Cods, and some Demons, and some Men, and some Lom-
er animals. Not ont of Envy, but 10 display ils oun variety and Fe-
cundity. But ve are like Onskilsul Spectators of a Picture, who con-
demn the Limner, because he hath not put brieht Colours every nhere:
mhereas he had suited his Colours 1o every part respectively, sivine to
each such as belonged 1o it. Or else are ve lihe those voho vould blame a
Comedy or Trasedy, because they vere not all Kines or Pleroes that acted
in it, but some servants and Kustick Clorons, introduce d also, talhine af-
ter their Rude fastion. Whereas the Dramatick Poem mould neither be
compleat, nor Elesant and Deliehiful, vere al those Worser Parts taken
out of it.
Aeain; We cannoc certainty conclude that che W ortes OF God and
his Creation donoc cranscend chosenarron Limits, Wrhich VulgarO-
pinion and Tmacination Cers them; chac commonly terminares che
Universe, buc a licele abore che elonds, or at molt suppoles thc
Fixed Scars, beine all Fastned in One solid sphere, cobethe CIrmost
Wall. Or Arched Roos, and Romline Circumference thereOT. Much le LS
oughe me, upon such Groundless Suppolicions, 10 inter, Thac chC
Worid mishe cheretore hare been made much Becter than it is, bC.
cause ic miphe hare been much more Roomy and Capacion. WC
explodeche atheistick insinitu oF Distanc Worlds; nor can we admit
chac cartesian. Ceeminsr moreModeK. Indesinite Extension OE Onc
Corporeal Universe, irhich vet really accordins co thac Philolophers
meanine, hach Nullos Fines, no Bounds nor Limits at all. POr WC
Pertirade our selres chat che C orporeal Worid, is as IlncapableoF a
Posctive Insinity OE Maenitude, 25 ic is OF Time; there beins no
Magniude Co Great, buc chac more sill mishe be Added to ic. NC-
verchelels, as re cannot poltibly Imasine the Sun, to bc a Ouarter, OL
an Hundredch Part (0 biz as me lenom ic to be; (0 much more may
ehe wholo corporeat 2 niverse, Far transcend chole narrom Bounds,
Which our Tmagination rould circumseribe it in. The Nem Celestiat
Phaenomena, and chelate Improvements oF astronomy and Philosophy
made chereuxon, render it (o probable, thac even ehis DuII Farth ot
Oursis a Planet, aud che sun a Fixed star, inthe centre OF CMaEVOrtex,
Wrherein ic mores, chat many hare Crewdly suspected, thac there are
Ocher Habitable Globes, belides this Farth OE ours, Certrich may bC
Sarled round about in a year Ox er0) as allo more SunS, wich their
respectire Planets, than One. Hoverer che Distance oF alL thC
Fixed Scarstrom us, beins PoVal, chatthe Diameter oF the Great
Orb, matcesno discernible Parallax in che sire ol chem; From whenco
ic is al(o probable, chat che other Fixed Stars are likemise vactiy di-
Ttanc From one another; This, ICay, widensche Corporeat Dniverse
tous, and matces chole Flammantia Maenia Mundi, a5 Eucretius cal(5
ehem, Those Flamine Walls of the Worid, to Ay aray beForeus. Nom
itis noc reatonable co chinte, chat all ehis immense Vastness, Mould lie
Waste, Deserr, aud2 ninhabited, and hare nochins in ic, chateoula
Praise che Creator chereos, Pave only chis One Small Spot of Farth. IN
my Faiher s Honse, (Caich oux Saviour) are Nany Mansions. And Ba
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