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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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be pressd by erro ocher equal Spheres rith
equal L’orces and contrary Directions; From
Wvhich presture che intermediate Sphere
rrou d De at absolute Rest; Wheretore if it
is not ablurd a Body Mhou d bc at absolute
Rest, it is impostible Motion thou d bc
essential LOMater. Thereis another Arou
ment Wrhich to me scems very conclutive
against Motions being essential to Mattei.
and that is trom the intinite passible Varie.
eies ofits Directions; lavino atide the con-
Sideration ot all other Bodies; or, suppo-
Cins a Body morine in vacno, it multmove
in onc certain Direction. Now Wrhac is il
thac determines ic to this Direction rather
chan co any ocher of the intinite VarietY;
no Realon can pollibly be action d urtry il
Boud more rather in this than in any
other ot the infinite number of Directions.
And ic cannot possibly move inmore than
one ot em at once, and theretore it rill
OF it (elF move in none oF cm, i. e. it will
not ofit selEmore at all, and consequent
Iy Motion is not essential to Matter. FOr
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