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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 77

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  1. C. H A P. II. Ath. mahe Lnomlede Funior 10 theWorid
  2. chese cro Nocions, theonc oF a Knomine Onderscandine Beine, clc
  3. orter oE a Perfectiy Happy Beins, arc Comradictious, because aII
  4. Rnomledse FMentially implies Dependenee uxon lomechins else
  5. aSits Cause z Scientia ex Intellectus Penum est Potentiae ab alio Depen-
  6. dentis, id quod non est Beatissimum. They conclucle chac Cogicari-
  7. on and all Action Whatloever, is really nochins else buc Local MO-
  8. tion, which is Fsentially Heterokinesce, chac irhich can never rile
  9. OF ic selE, buc is caused by Come ortier Agent wichou ils Subject.
  10. XV. In che Elerench place, che Democririele Acheilts reason
  11. thuS: IF the World vere made by any Ancccedem Mind or Ulnder-
  12. Canding, chat is, by a Deicy; chen chere mult necds be an Idea-
  13. Platform and Exemplar oF che Wwhole World betore ic was made; and
  14. consequenely Actual Hnomledse, boch in order oE Pime and Na-
  15. ture, Betore Things. But aII Knomledre is che information oE che
  16. chinss chemselres knomn, aIl Conception oEche Mind is a Passiontrom
  17. the thines Conceived, and their Actirier upon ic; and is cherctore
  18. Juniour to chem. Wheretorethe Worid and Things, vere betore
  19. Knomledse and che Conception oF iny Mind, indno Unomledee.
  20. Mind or Deiry beForethe Worid asits Cau(c. Fhis Argument is chus
  21. propoled by che Acheistick Poet;
  22. Exemplum porro sienundis rebus, e ipsa
  23. Notities hominum Divis unde insita primim,
  24. Duid vellent facere ut scirent, animoqu viderent ?
  25. duove modo est unquam vis coenita Principiorum
  26. Duidnam inter sese permutato Ordine possent,
  27. Si non ipsa dedit specimen Natura creandi E
  28. Fon conldthe supposed Deiry have a Pattern or Platform in his alind
  29. 10 frame the Woridby, and hence Bould he receive it? Hom contd
  30. hehave any Knomledee of aen besore they vere made, as also ohat
  31. himsels sould ill 1o domben there was nothine ? Hom conld he under-
  32. stand the Force and Possibility of the Principles, hat they vould pro-
  33. duce when varionsty combined tosether, before Nature and Thines them
  34. selves, by Creatine had siven a specimen E
  35. ZVI. A Twelsch Argumentation OE che Democririck and Epi-
  36. curean Acheists against a Deier, is eo chis purpose: Thac chinss
  37. conld noc bemade by a Deitr thac is supposed co bc a Beine cvery
  38. ay Pertect; because cher are (0 Fauler, and (0 III made: Lhc AF.
  39. sument ischus propounded by Eucretius;
  40. Duod si jam rerum ienorem primordia quae sint,
  41. Hoc tamen ex ipsis Caeli Kationibus ausim
  42. Consirmare, aliisque ex rebus reddere multis,
  43. Nequagnam nobis Divinitus esse paratant
  44. Naturam rerum, tanta stat praedita Cnlpa.
  45. This ArgumeMC, d Cah Katronibus, Erom AAronOmy, or che Consti-
  46. cion oEche Heavens,is chis: Phac cheMundane Sphere is (0 Framed, in
  47. TespCC

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 77. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0107?run=74