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# Catalogue record: 50672 — H. E. Kestner an [Leibniz]
# Incipit: Quod mea de principiis Nometheticis commentatiuncula
# Date: 1709-11-07
# Sender: Kestner, H.E. — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II (assigned, not yet published)
# Other printings: Grua: Textes, 1948, S.689.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=50672&katnr=36829
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# Title: LBr. 465 · Kestner, H.E.
# Folios: Bl. 24–25 (from the shelfmark LBr 465 Bl. 24-25 (=36830)): 4 pages, canvases 47–50, page ids DE-611-HS-854978:0047 to DE-611-HS-854978:0050
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-854978&page=47
# Lines: 109 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.96
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## Folio 24r — DE-611-HS-854978:0047
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Mluitris et Excellentissime,
Fautor Honoratissime
Quod mea de principiis nomotheticis commentatium
cula Tibi, Tanto Viro haud ingrata, quim potius
benignissimo sudlicio condlecorata fuerit, grato
animo gratus agnosio quas in methoio Tua
protulisti doctissimas de reformanda surisprudentia
corrupta cogitationes, atque, surisprudentiam veterem
etse ad hocliernam ut Eua ad minervam, non luve
niliter aut insubide, sed vere etle conceptas Etatus
habitus ratio et Etruitura tum Romanae tum Ger
manice jurisprudentiae evidenter satis commonstrant
nec peritos et incorraptos cettimatores huc de re
nisi rationi vim inferre velint o dubita
furos crecliderim. Disquisitio de praemiis et prenis
secundum bene et male gerta generi humano ex Eumma
immutabilique Dei perfectione inferendis et tribuendis
facile in consonantiam redigi potest ubi res ipra
certa moius autem (qui non immutat rei etlentiam)
demonstrandi controversus ett. De existentia Dei, ejurq
sanitissima voluntate omnes in universum homines
(de quo nuper)
cum modestia et graritas sint inter laudes scriptores, ego dictum illud paulo audacius expungerem,
aut certe temperarem, si incudire typographorreddendus esset labor ille invenilis meus.
pretatemque e
virtates internas, bonumque amtuum, si non et voluntatem  probitatem liquando animi q
rectam rationem etiam sine revela etiam si revelatio abesset, a recta ratione doceri a
non patem dubitandum; legis latorisque pruventis est dare operam ut homines inde a pulritia
manifestum arbitus
ad vertutem non fucatam ducantur, nec tantum judicis sed et consciertiae satis facere vecantur
is

## Folio 24v — DE-611-HS-854978:0048
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obitringente, nemo sana mentis dubitat sed vera calutis
et virtutis perfectictimae principia natura et homo
libi relictus ignorat S. Scriptura autem unue aperit.
Gentiles versantur in tenebris eorumque virtutes Eunt
Eplendlida uti nonnemo inquit, vitia. Sui temper cogit
virtus Eudet, coacta virtus non virtus, Ec superititio
aut hypoericis eit. Graviora sunt, quae ad comparandan
tandem aliquando veram lurieprullentiam spectant
argumenta vel ideo urgenda, quonium perversis uti
saepislime in actis olservo legulejorum et rabularum
conatibus justitiam prorius luceratam et vulneratam
deprehendimus. Cuin, quanta hujus rei calamitas et
miserorum elientum atsluctissimus Eit status, tot querelie
iptaque experientia abunde satis docere porsunt. Cum
vero Angli dani Ealli aequislimas statui Reipubs.
convenientes leges teneant miror sane, quod Germani lit
sire autoritatis praejudicio sive ignorantia occaecati
cum eorum scientia ultra terminos et ambitum suris
pomani Eemet non porrigat) similia non tentent et leger
condant Germanice, et cuivis in hac Etatui conformes.
ejuare prodromum specimenque legum seculo accommodatarum
ea
Quod ad Leges attinet, vereor ut nostris meliores sint multo, quibus Angli
Galliqus utantur. Legum conscribendarum delineationem privatus praetentare
notest fortusse taman e re erit ut consulat complures in Republicae
nel minus pudicio adoctrina validos
administratione jurisque usu versato ne res tanta non satis circum-
specte agi videatur

## Folio 25r — DE-611-HS-854978:0049
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mox mox in lucem edam in quo amputatis, que ex lure Roma
no frustra diputantur, sex aut septem capitibus illa quae
necessaria, utilia et ad statum praesentem spectare videbuntu
breviter et pervose exhibiturus, et non tam principia
que Euppone, sed iptas leges, ad hunc scopum et ad
decidendas privatorum altercationes tendentes, propo
siturus er. Id facile intelligo, tale legum corpus
toti termaniae ad aptatam, frustra expectari quo
minus vero quilibet princeps un suo teritorio leges
irtiusmodi introdluiere possit ejus nulla dubitandi
ratio remanebit. Et aceo rem mihi longe gratam
efficeres, Vir Mlustris, si Tuam de hoc propocito men
tem, et, quomodo hoc negotium felicissime absolvi
posset, aut debeat, mihi aperiret siquidem hasce
Tuas literas si eum bona pace Tua id fiat meo
opurculo prefigere conititui quo tanta viri an
foritate et surlicio beniguo lumen consegnatur
et alii ad similia tentanda animentur. Expectabe
igitur cum voluptate Tuum, quod mini initar omnium
prit conhilium Termanid valde profuturam.
Quod prescriptionas friginta et quadruginta annorum
tanquam merum aliquod suns commentum intor
Quaestio utrum et quatenus praescriptio temporalis inter principes
statusque Germoniae locum habeat, facilem decisionem recipit, si res mera
ratione agatur. Sed cum ad praxiu et judicia imperu deventendest, scis
etiam autoritatem in consilium haber. Itaque sententiam autoritatibus confirmari
desideriban

## Folio 25v — DE-611-HS-854978:0050
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Rcyps et principes locum non in veniant nemo facile indu
binm vocabit, cum cummorum principum sura non ex
positivis legibus, aut lacunis doctorum, led ex invictis
Juriprudentiae naturalis fundamentis Eint decidenda
admittunt tumon et quidem recte immemorialem, eum
citra hanc omnia rerum dominia in incerto essent et
ita hartenus contentit du. Werchoff. prof. primarius
Helmstaciencis in diqutatione de prrescriptione
inter liberas gentes. Cum vero sactitent doctores, primi
pris vene politices et suus pullici dertituti, principum
imperi inter se litigantium controvertias ex sure Romano
ce detirminandas mirum non est, quod hiec soutentia
utrobivis applaurum adinveniat verum contrarium
ego jamduilum demonstravi in tractatu meo de
defectibus suris communis in Germania problem. 5.
Du. Rempfero communicavi, quae mihi nuncianda ipsi
sustirti, et mox respontionem expecto. Vale, vir
Mlustris meque ama, qui eum, clum Eum
Labam Rinthelii d. 7 Nor
Mustris Celeberrimique.
Mominis
scerpetun, actor
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