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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 86r

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One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 85v); this page is its right half.

The machine reads it as

  1. vere made againstic. ~ How mans chouehe cher hadl prora
  2. +o a demonstration che Impostibilier and Concradiction ot
  3. chechins? And hom far didches prevait ich che genera-
  4. lier oE ihe WVorid 1o beliere them. And vet hom weak,
  5. and in eruch foolistr, do all their ArgUMenES APDCAE, 10 Men
  6. thac tnom and by experience understand che matter ?
  7. Ochers ill Pay che same concernine the Motion of the
  8. Farth, nocrichstandins che erent Contidence with whict
  9. mans hare underraten ro demonstrare ic to be impostible:
  10. thereason ot which, is only cheimpertect knon leds ve have
  11. ot the chins: and as our understandins ol it is more and
  12. more culars dand elear d, the Contradictions ranim.
  13. Ouche renoc then to chink, aM the Contradictions e
  14. Faner becween che Fore tenomlede of 60d and Continsency
  15. ot Erents, Betmeen Predestination and Frec. will, 1obe the
  16. effects oF our lenorance and partial Rnomleds: Mar ic
  17. noc be in chis, a5 in themarter oF. the Ancipodes, and MO-
  18. tion ol che Farth ? May noc che Inconsistencies chav ne
  19. ind in the one be 25 ill-grounded as thole thac have been
  20. urs d against the others? And have e noc realon:to Tu(
  21. Dect, nay beliere this eo be the Cale; since we are Ture,
  22. thac we hnom much lels ot Ciod and his Acrribures, than
  23. ot the Farth and Hcavenly Motions ?
  24. S. ZX XI. Eren in thesciences ehat are most cominon and
  25. certain, chere are lome thines, erhich amons thole that are
  26. unacquainted rich Cach maccers, rould pass For Contra-
  27. dictions. Astor example, lec us luppose one pould happen
  28. eomention Nesative Onantities amons Persons Arangers 1o
  29. ehe Mathemacieks; and beins askd what is meane by chose
  30. ords, ould antiver, Thac he understands by ehem Ouan-
  31. tiries, that are conceird to be lels ehan Norhine; and chae
  32. one ol their Properries is, that beine mulciplu dbv a Num-
  33. ber less than Nochins, the Produet may be a Maenitude
  34. ereater than anr altiend. This miohe justly appeara Rid-
  35. ale, and sull ot Contradictions, and verhaps will do (0 10
  36. a BTCaE DatE oF y Auditors. Somerhins lels than Nochins.
  37. in appearance is a Contradiction; a Number less than No-
  38. thins, has thelame Face: char chele Mould be multipliable
  39. on one anocher, Tonnes very oddly; and chat che Produa
  40. ot lels chan Nothins uxon less chan Nothins Mould De Do-
  41. licire, and ereater chan ans assien dOuantier, scems incon-
  42. ceirable. And vec it ehc most Ponorant ill but have pa-
  43. cience, and applr chemselres tor Instruction eo che Stiltul in
  44. chese matters, iher will soon tind all ihe scemins Contra.
  45. dictions

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 4, 8, fol. 86r. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068331:0171?run=74