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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 46

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  1. The Sensitive Soul not Corporeal.
  2. B0OK I.
  3. Thac indecd ot the emo, this Opinion is more Reasonable diet le
  4. lerable thanthat ocher Exrravaganes ofthole, irto ill cirtier make
  5. alI Souls to bc Generatod and consequenelis to bC Corporeal, OK
  6. at least the senfitire Soul both in Men and Brutes. For Behidesthe
  7. Monstrosier oE this latrex opinion, in makins emo distinet souls and
  8. Perceptive Substances in every Man, irhich is a thing Cufticient
  9. contuted br internal Sense, it lcares us aloin an absolute impos-
  10. sibilitr, oF provins che immortalier oF che Rational Soul, the In-
  11. CorpOreity oE any Substance, and by consequence the Existence ot
  12. any Deits dictinet trom the C Orporeal WV orid.
  13. And aS FOT THaL PretenCC OF LHCIrS, thaE Sen VElCIS MaTTer may aS
  14. wellbecome Sensutire, and asit vere kindled into Lite and Cogi
  15. tation, a5 a Body thac mas deroid of Light and HCat, may be
  16. Kindled into Fire and Flame; this scems to aroue t00 much lono-
  17. rance oF the Doctrine oF Bodies, in men othermise Learned and
  18. Ingenious. The bese Naturalists havins already concluded, That
  19. Fire and Flame is nochins but such a Morion oF the Insensible Parts
  20. oF aBOdy, as Wwhereby cher are violently agitated, and mans times
  21. distipated and scattered trom cach other, begetting in the mean
  22. time thole Phancies OF Fieht and Feat in Animals. Now there is
  23. no difficuler at all in conceirins that the Insensible Particles oF a
  24. Bodr, irhich vere betore quiescent, mar be put intomorion; this
  25. beins nochins but a Nem Modisication ot chem, and ne Entityre
  26. alls distince trom theSubstance oF Body; a5 Tife, sense and Cogi
  27. tation are. There is nochins in Pire and Flame, or a Rindled
  28. Bodr, different From ocher Bodies, bur ouly che Motion Or Mecha-
  29. nism, and Phancie oF ic. And theretore ic is but a crude conceit
  30. irtrich the Acheists and Corporealists oF Former times have
  31. Been alvars (0 Fond oF, Thac Souls are nothingbut Pirie orFlam-
  32. meous Bodies. For chough Heat in the Bodies ot Animals bC
  33. Necessary Instrument For Soul and Lite to aet by in them, vet it
  34. is achins really distinet From Lite; and a Red hot Tron hath nOE
  35. cheretore any nearer approximation to Lite than ic had betore, nor
  36. the Flame oF a Candle than ehe extinguistie SnuF or Fallon oFic; the
  37. difference betreen ehem being only in che Asication ot theinsen
  38. (iblC PartS. We mistit also add, that accordins to this Hypothesis
  39. che SoulS OF Animals conld noc be Numerically the Pame chrouxh
  40. out the whole space oE their Lires: Since chat Fire that necds a
  41. Pabulum co prey uxon, doch not continue aliraies one and the Pame
  42. Numerical Substance. TheSoul oF a nem born Animal could be
  43. nomorethe same, with the Soul oF chat Animal several vears after
  44. chan che Flame oF a nem ligheed Candle is the Pame with that
  45. Flame chaceminkles last inthe Socket. Which indeed areno morethe
  46. Tame than a River or Stream is the Pame, at sereral distances ot
  47. time. Which Reason mar be allo extended turther to provethe
  48. Soul eo beno Body at all Sincethe Bodies oF all Animals are in 2
  49. perpetual EluIX.
  50. ZR AVTTI. We hare non lutricieney pertormed our Arst Paske
  51. rhich Was e0 Moir trom che Orixin oE etie Aromical Phy siol9GY.

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 46. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0076?run=74