# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0026 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0026?run=74 # Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53) # Folio - , page id 797370323:0026 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=797370323&page=26 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/797370323/jpgs/default/00000026.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 41 lines, status machine # Lines: 41 recognised, mean confidence 0.88 # 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. b fallible Mark, that they have been Created by some vise Being, and have not been for ever Ot chem (elVeS, D. 44 17. That Animals, con d not have been from alt Fiternity of themselves for both these Rea- Sons, P. e d1S. That the enantitu of Fluids, in alt the Planeis has been constantly decreasine, and con- sequently had ihe Worid been from all Pternity. there hac been no Liquids extant in our Syltem at present, P. 19. That since te Hleat, and Listt, and BuIK, of the Sun and Fxt ScarS constantly decrease, hact the Worid been from all Piernity, they had been alt Fxtingnisted e’ex nom, P. 5F 520. That the CClestial Bodies, do not move in void or empty Spaces, but such as make some Resistance to their Motions, Which must have quite destroyd them c’er nou, had the Worid lasted from alt Pternity, D. 53 2Y. Since Mlotion is not ellentialto Matter, and since the celestial Bodies do not move in their Orbits by Nechanilm, they cond not have movd from alt Pternity. P. 56 8 22. Since the materiat Part ofthis Dniverse, is not insinite in his Extent, the Celestial Bodies hact been alt amass d in theCenter ofthe materi- ad Woria: by the Attraction of these Bodies one ipon another had the Worid been, from alt F ternitu. D. 55 5 23. Tsad theWortd lasted from all Fternity, then must the first of every Species of Animals have been