The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 70
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- Athers contendthat Ihe First Principle BOOK I.
- octier in thie Umrerle entire, and Noching oF it lost. WherctOre
- etie Substanice OF Macter and Body, as distinguisted From the Acci
- denies, is the only chinq in the morla chatis Ulncorruptible and TIn-
- destrorable. And oF this it is to be undercood chat Nothins can
- bemade out oF Noching; and Destroyedto Nochins, (1. e:) thac
- everr entire chins that is Made or Generated, must be made
- OF lome oreeristent MaLter; Wrhich Mlatter as From Eterit
- SelF- existent and Inmade, and is also undestrorable, and
- can rever be redued eo Noching. IE is noc to be under.
- Aood ot the Accidents themselres; that arc aIl Makeable and
- Destrorable, Generable and Corruptible. Whatloever is in the
- NVorla is bue uni nis Exsoa, Matier so and so Atodisied or onalified.
- alI irtrich Modisications and Oualifications oF Matter are in their omn
- nature Deltrorable, and the Macter it PelE (asthe Basis oFctiem, not
- necessarily derermin d eo this or that Accident) isthe ontr agemntor
- n arconede che onty Necestarily Existent. The Conclusioir there
- Foreis, thacnoanimal, no Lirins Inderstandins Bodr; canbe Ab-
- Solutely and Essentially Incorruptible, this beins an Incommunica-
- ble Property ot the Matter, and cheretore there can can be no Cor-
- Poreal Deity, che Original oFallchings, P. Sencially Clndestroyable.
- Thouoh che stoicks imasined the wrhole Corporeal Ulniverse c0
- be an Animal or Dcity, vec this Corporeal Cod oF theirs Was
- onty by Accidene Incorruprible and Immortal, becaule they
- Supposed, that there was no other Matter, Which existine rith.
- out ehis Worid, and makcins Inrodes upon it, could dilunite
- ehe Pares oF ic or dilorder its Compages. Which it there ivere, the
- Lite and Ulnderstandins oF chis Stoical God, or great Mundane Ani-
- mal, a5 Well as that ot ocher Animals in like Cales, must necds va-
- nictrinto nothins. Thustrom the Principles oF Corporealilm it selF.
- it plainlr Follors chac there can be no Corporeal Deitr, because
- ehie Deity is suppoled to be agemmulor is aveonede gu, 2 chins chat waSnC-
- ver made, andis Psentially Undestrorable, Which are the Pririleses
- and Properties oE nochins bur Senselels Matter.
- Z. Inthenext place, the Atheists undertake more effectually
- eo contute that Corporeal God oF the Stoictes and otters, From the
- Principles oF che Atomical PhiloCophy, in this manner. AII C OrpO
- real Theistswho alsere chac an Cnderstanding Nature or Mind, re
- Cidins in theMaiter oE the whole Ulniverse, was the Arst Orivinal
- OF cheMundane Syctem, and did Incellectually Frame it, betray no
- Imall Tonorance of Philosophy and the Nature oF Body, in SuPPO
- Ing Real Oualicies, Belides Magnitude, Pigure, Site and Motion
- a5 Simple and Primitire things, to belons toit; and that there mas
- such a Oualier or Faculer oF Understanding in the Matter OF the
- rhole Clniverse coeternal ith the same, chat was an Original
- chins Uncompounded and IInderived trom any chins clle. No
- eo suppose such Orixinal Oualities and Povers, Wrhich are Really
- Distinet From che Substance oF Extended Matrer and its Modificati-
- ons, oE Divisibilier, Figure, Site and Mocion, is Really osuppose
- so many Dictinet Substances, which cheretore mult needs be Incor.
- Poreal.
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 70. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0100?run=74