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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 128

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  1. AFuller Accompt of Anaximanders BOOK 1
  2. therefore that Insinite Worids, are successively thus Generated and Cor
  3. rupred. Andhe sives the reason why it is Infinite, that so there misht be
  4. never any Fail of Generations. But he erreth in this, that alsienine
  5. onty a Material Cause, he tahes avay the Actioe Principle of thines. Por
  6. Anaximanders infinite, is nothine else but matter; but Matter can pro-
  7. duce nothine, unless there be also an Active Cause. Where hethers allo, hon
  8. anaximenes Followed anaximander herein, in altignins ouly a Material
  9. Cause oF thetniverse, richout ans Eficient; thoush he differed
  10. Fromhim, in makeins the First Matter to De Air, and deriving all
  11. thinos From thence, by Rarefaction and Condensation. Thus, mesce,
  12. It is plain, chac AnaximanderS Infinite, Was no Infinite Alind, whictu
  13. is thetrue Deiey, buc ouly insinite Matter, deroid oE any LileOr
  14. Actire POHeT. Ensebius ismore particular in givins an acconnt ot
  15. anaximanderS Cosmopeeia. 1d arese gu Fare Tlu. neoav airiav éx ciV ~
  16. 23 ravlos guVEoriS Z n, Dd0e45, EE 8 75G =C 8(9VG à nonEHe daI i nado-
  17. 2878Gdraila5 ar ele s5 oilas n60185 41oi) rd en 28 aidis, quripiov DEuS ZE
  18. i LuxeS, n rld reveoi 28dE 2S udsus a rone Crivat, nat TVa ex T6TC
  19. PNoyoS opi, cVVaI 7 cI Tuv yuv aée, co5 ru devsteco ~MOI-
  20. or. HS TIVO arDeaVCIONS, I EIS TIVAE CETOHNGIODEIONS WVHAZS, VTOErVaL 7 HN1OV,
  21. nn Tim oenuvlu, i 285 aisi eg5 Anaximander affirms, Infinite (MALTCF)
  22. robethe only cause of the Generation and Corruption of allthines. And
  23. that the Feavens, and Infinite Worids, vere made ont of it, by way
  24. of Secretion or Segrecation. Also that those Generative Principles of
  25. Hseat and Cold, that vere conteined in it from Eternity, beins Segre
  26. sated, when this Woridmas made, a certain Sphere of Flame or Fire, did
  27. first arise and incompass the Air, which surrounds this Farth, (a sa Bark
  28. doth a Trec) which beine aftermards broken, and divided into smaller
  29. Spherical Bodies, constituted the sun and Moon and all the Starsa
  30. Wrhich Anaximandrian Cosmopeeia, as brieAy hinted by Aristorle in
  31. these ords, oi di ex 78 Eros, ersous rec evarriorulas, exne ersoi, co
  32. AraEiare ES Duor Some Philosophers Generate theWorid, bythe secre-
  33. tion and Secrecation of inexistent Contrarieties, as Anaximander speaks
  34. And elemere in hisMetaphr(icks, he cakses notice ot arasidictes rd
  35. uirua, AnaximandersMixture ofthines. Whence we conclude, chat
  36. Anaximander SInfinite, ivas nothinq else but an Infinite Chaos ot Mat
  37. ter, in Wrhich vere cither ActuallY, or Pocentially, conteined all
  38. manner oF Oualities; by the Fortuitous Secretion and Segregation
  39. ot trhich, he suxposed Intinite W orids to besuccessirely Generated
  40. and Corrupted. So that me may nom eatily suels, Wtence Lencip.
  41. pus and Democritus had cheirEnfinite Worlds, and perecive honear
  42. 2kin, thele emo Acheistick Aypotheses mere. But it willnoc be 2
  43. iss cotake notice al(o OF that Particular Conceie, itich Anaxi-
  44. mandentad concerninqe the First Orixinal oF Brute Animal5 and Man-
  45. eta Pb. . 5. c. IBKive. OF the FOrmer elutareh sires us this ACCOUnE; Ava Eparte
  46. et ireco rmmda Ta ReCoTA Eca, ∞2010I5 Cua anar DEI, XCG
  47. BarSonS 3 ~ iamias, aerobalvar 67 rd Ene ce r, n ceery v, d8 2
  48. PnOIS, Ex Onigov Xe GVON METaSIEVaI That the F irst animals vere genera-
  49. ted in Moisture, and encompas d about mith certain Thorny Barks, by
  50. exhich they vere suarded and defended, which after furiber crontt
  51. comine to be more Dry and crachins, they issued forth, but lived
  52. onty asport time aster. And as For chetrA Original oF Men, Ensebius
  53. reprelentoe
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  55. Lib. 1. P. 1C
  56. Ed. Stept
  57. XV. PraB:
  58. ehys. L. L. C. L
  59. L.t 4. c. 4.
  60. Ihc
  61. soi
  62. et
  63. AXi
  64. a8ai

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 128. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0146?run=74