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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 180

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  1. Oourthly, cheorder, beauez, and perfection of the vorte
  2. dochrequire, chac in che Universe Thould B0 RgenES OF aII
  3. Pores, Come necellary, lome Frcc. Come contingene. He
  4. chac Pall makie cicher all chines necestary, suided by destiny:
  5. Orall chines Frec, soverned by election; Or all Chines con-
  6. cinsene, happenins by chance, doch overchron che beauey
  7. and the pertection ot che Wortd.
  8. ed
  9. T. FE.
  10. FIC fourch Arcument from Reason isthis. TheOrder
  11. Beaury and Perfection of the rorld, requireth, that in
  12. the 2niverse, Bouldbe Acents of all sorts, some nccessary.
  13. some frec, some contingent. Fle that sall mahe allthines ne-
  14. nessary, or allthinesfree, or all thines contingent, doth o-
  15. verthron the beautr and pefection of the World.
  16. Inmhich droument l observe, Eirst, a contradiction. For
  17. Sceine he that mateth ang thine in that hemaketh it, he ma-
  18. Reth it to bemcessary, it follometh, that he that maleth all
  19. thines, maketh alrhines necessary tobe. Asif a morkman
  20. male a carment, the carment must necessarily be. S0 it God
  21. mate every thine, everythins must necessarily be. Perhaps
  22. the beaut, of zhe World requireth (thonchme enom it not)
  23. that some Acents Bould verte mithont deliberation, whicb
  24. he calls necessary Acents. Andsime Acents mith delibera-
  25. tion, andthose, bothhe and Y caltree Acents. And that
  26. some asents Bouldvorte aud e nocbnom hor; And those
  27. effects me boch cal contingent; But this hinders not, but
  28. that he that elccteth may have his election necessarily deter-
  29. mined to one by former causes; And that which is contingent,
  30. and impated eo Forinne, be nevertheless necessary, and de-
  31. pend on pricedent necessary causes. For by contingent, men
  32. de noc mean that which hathno cause, but which hathnot for
  33. cause any ehins whicb We perceive. As for F xample; when
  34. aTravailer meers rrith a shover, thejourney had a cause, and
  35. the rain bada canse sufficient enonch to produseit, but be-
  36. cassse the jeurney caused not the rain, nor the rain thejournes.
  37. we say, they vere continsent one toanother. And ihus jon
  38. sec thonoh there bethreefores ofevents. Neccssary. Con
  39. tinsent,
  40. Numb. 16.
  41. 4

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 180. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0180?run=74