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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 20, fol. 393v

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  1. are Nhollus ignorant Nhat Rinds os Things are in Thal space. Those
  2. Vriters, Who by the Nord imagimari, meant at anu lime to asium that
  3. Space Was not real, didnot therely Prove tharit Was not real.
  4. CB. Space is nol a, Deing, an eternal et insinite Deing; but a tropentus
  5. or a consequence os thelxistence ol a D’enq infinite et eternal. infinite
  6. Space is Immensitys: Bu ommensitus is not Tod: Apd therefore infinite space
  7. is not Lod. Poris there Any difficulty in What is here alleged about
  8. space havinq sarts. Hor Infinite space is One, absolutelys et essentiallis
  9. indivisible; Agd to suppose it parted, it a contradiction in termsi because
  10. mere must be space in the hantition itselt; Ahim is to suppose it partet,
  11. cet
  12. et yet not parted at me same time. Tne immensity or Ompipresence ot
  13. Lod, is no more a dividinq ol his substance into Tarts; thanhis duraton
  14. or Continuance ot existinq, is a dividinq of his existence into tants
  15. There is no diffeiculty her, bul Peat arises from me figurative abuse
  16. olthe Word Parts.
  17. 4 space Nas nothinque but the Onder ot Taings Co- existing: it Houl
  18. falloW, thalif Tod Mould remove m a strait line ie Whole material
  19. Norld Ennire, With apus Sistnets shatho ever; yet it Nould Aill altays
  20. qu.
  21. continue n the fame lace: and thar nothmqus Would recieve any Thork upon
  22. he nost sudden coppinqot that Motion. And is Time Nas nothinus but
  23. but the Order ot succession et creared things, il Noulo TalloW, Thatis Eod
  24. had created the Norco millions of Ager soener than he cid, yet il Hould not
  25. have been created at all ne sooner. Aurther: Space et Sime are vantitiet.
  26. Nhich situation et Order are not
  27. 5.FThe Argument in Lnis Taragraph, is; that because space is uniforri
  28. or alike, and one hart does not difser from another, theresore the Dodies
  29. created in One place, it they had been created in Anomer place (supposinq
  30. t
  31. them to feep the same situation Nith regardto eaca other) Nould Aili
  32. have been creater in the same Tlace at before: Whim is a manis est contra:
  33. diction. The uniformitis op space, dues in decd prove that there conldbe
  34. no Lexternal Reason. Nhy Eod Mouto create things in one place rathet
  35. han in another: Dut does thatunder his Oin Will, from beng to
  36. iiselt a suficient reason of Acmus in Amy place, When Al Slacesare
  37. qu.
  38. ndiferent, or Alife, et there be quod reason to act in some place
  39. 6. The same feasoninqu lases place here, as n te fore -gomgs.

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Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 20, fol. 393v. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068378:0790?run=74