The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 117
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- CHA D. III. Supreme Deity, no Arheists
- Divine bue Demoniack thine (a5the Philo(opher chere declares) n
- Cod buca Damon ontr, or oE a Midale Nature. Por ic is nochine
- BUE BINONaNIa, Or the LoVCof Pulchritude, as sueh, erhrich chouchriehe
- Iy uled may perhaps Wing and luspire the Mind, 10 Noble and Oc-
- nCrOUS ACtempEs, and beree a scorntul disdeien inic, oF Mean, Dir-
- cy, and Sordid chings; vec it is capable ofbeins abuled allo, and chen
- it ill Prikce donnvard inco BrucishneIs and Sentualier. Buc at BCK
- it is an Afection, belongine ontr eo Imperfect and Parturient BCines;
- and cherctore conld noc bc the l’irst Principle oE AII chinss. WHCrC.
- Fore we sec no verr preat reaton, buc chac in a Rectitied and Oua-
- lified senee, this may passFor erue Theolory; Thac LovC iS ThCSu
- Preme Deity aud Orisinal oF all chines; namely, iE by it bcmeane, l
- ternal, SelF Orivinated, Incellectual Lore, or Psencial and Substan-
- tial Goodness, ehac havins an Intinice overllowina Fulness and
- Fecundier, dispenses ic selF Cminvidioullr, accordina coche best Wis
- dom, Sircetr Governs nIl, rithout anx P’orec or Violence (+II
- chines beins Naturally subject to iis Autorier, and readily oberine
- IIS L AWS) and reconciles che rhole World inco Harmony. Forche
- Scripture relline us, That God is LovC, Ceems 10 warranc chus much
- cous, chac L0ve in Comeristuuly Gualisied (encc, is Ood.
- ZIX. But re are to omit the Fabulous ArC, andto descend 10
- the Philosophical, eo enquirethere, Wrho chey ivere amone chCPFO.
- Fessed Philolophers, irho Acheired in that manner, betore described.
- Tciserue indeed, chat Aristorle in ocher Places, accules Demoeritus
- and Lencippus ot the verr lame thing, chacis, ot allionine only a AIa-
- teriat Canse ot chellniverse, and sivine no aceoune ol the Originat
- OF Motion; buc vetit is certain thac chese vere noc che Pertons in
- tended by him here; Those wrhich he speales os being rves r RelonN
- BINOODBHORVTCV, Come of ihe first and most ancient Philosopbers of all
- Moreorer ic appears by his Deleription oF chem thac chey ivere
- such as did nocPhilolophire in che may oE Aoms, but resolved all
- chines whacsoerer in che Universe, into van, and radu a VAHC, Matter
- and che Passions or affections, Onalities and Forms OC Matter 5(0 Chac
- ther vere noc Atomical, buc HV lopachian Philo(ophers. Thele CNO
- the old Materialists and che Democritieles, did boch alisce derive aIl
- chines From Dead and Scupid Macter, Fortuitoully Mored; and che
- Disterence betreen them ras onty chis, chac che Demoericictes
- manas d ehis bulinels in che ray oF atoms, the ocher in chac more
- vulsar way oE Qualities and Forms : 50 chat indccd, chis is really
- but onc and che same Acheisticl Hypothesis, in two sereral Schemes.
- And as one of them is called che atomicte Atheism, Co cheother, FOr
- Distinctions Cake, may be called che Hylopathian.
- XE R. Nom pristorle cels i Plat, Calere Syropathian atheists
- OE his, ere alL chie Arst Philosophers oF che Tonick Order and Suc
- celtion, Betore Anaxaeoras.. Whercol Thales beins cheHcad, he is
- consentaneonsly thereunco by Aristorle, madeto De aerny9 a roI
- rus pinooea, the Prince and Leader of this hind of Atheisticat Philo-
- Sophy, he derivins aIl things Wharloeres, ad Homer had done belore
- tuim, trom Wacer, and delnomledoins no ocher Principle buc che
- NOc.
- Eluid Matter.
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 117. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0141?run=74