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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 129

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  1. C H A P. TI
  2. Atheisticat Philosophy.
  3. reprelents his Senee, EBUS: FE aMOcdEV ZeoCOV o av DeCOS EyENd, eN
  4. 28 T4 ui àMa di Eavse rXI VEUEDaI uovor 3 7 avdcenoV nonvxe quio
  5. Scdat TIOnnOECS, dio n naY aeras n aVHOTE TDISTOV orra daoco Dive
  6. Nsen vere at first generated in the Bellies of other animals, forasmuch
  7. as al other animals, aster they are bronebt forth, are quickly able 10
  8. sced and nourist themselves, but Man alone needs to be nursed up a lons
  9. time; andtheresore conld not be preserved at sirst, in any other way. Buc
  10. .l.1
  11. Plutarch expreceth chis Comechins more particularly. NaEipart e95 Simp. lib. 8.
  12. et 1X doW EyIEVEDaI TO neCoTOV adeCo SS airoBalVeraI, ses TeaPEila y yero. . R185 L. 8.
  13. inaerss Eavrois Condeir, ExBNn SivaI ZIVINCVTaN VnSNaCEDaI. Anaximander
  14. concludes that Mlen vere at Cirst Generated in the Bellies of Fistes, and
  15. beine there nonrished, till ihey ereu strons, and vere able 10 sbist for
  16. themselves, tey vere aftermard east ont upon Dry Land. L. aIY, ANa-
  17. ximander s Theolorr, is thus boch reprelenced eo us, and censured, by
  18. Velleins chaEpicurean PhiloCopher in Cicero: Anaximandri opinio est D.NaI. D.
  19. Nativos esse Deos, longis Intervallis Orientes Occidentesque, eosque in -L.ib. 1.
  20. numerabiles esse Mundos, sed nos Deum nisi Sempiternum intellieere qui
  21. possumus? Anaximandersopinionis, that theCods are Native, risine
  22. and vanistine acain, in lons Periods of times; and that these Gods
  23. are Innumerable Worids; but hom can ve conceive ibat 10 be a G0d
  24. vhich is not FternalE We leaen From hencc, chac anaximander did
  25. indecd (0 Far comply wich Vulgar Opinion, as chac he retainea
  26. chename oF God5, but homerer chac hereally denied chelxistence
  27. oF cheching it selF, eren accordins toche judement oF chis Ppicu-
  28. rean Philosopher. Foralmuch as all his Godsivere Native and Mor-
  29. talus and indecd nochins else, buc chole innumerable Worids, ertrict
  30. he supposed in certain Periodsof Time, tobe succellively Genera-
  31. ced and Destrored. Whereforeitis plain, thac anaximanders only
  32. Real Numen, chat is, his First Principle, chac as Ingenerable and Incor-
  33. ruptible, as nochine bue Insinite Matter, deroid oF aII Under-
  34. standins and Lite, by che Portuitons Secretion oE whose inexistent
  35. Onalicies and PartS, he supposed, FirI, che PlemenES OF F artH, Water.
  36. Rir and Fire, and ehen, cheBodies oF che Sun, Moon and ScarS, and boch
  37. Bodies and Souls of men and ocher Animals, and lastly, Innumerable
  38. ox Intinice Cuch WVorlds as chese, aslo many secundary and Native
  39. Crods, (that ere al(o Mortal) cohare been Generated, accordins 10
  40. that Acheiltical Aypothesis deseribed in Plato.
  41. XXTV. Iis certain chat the Vulgar in all Agestrave been very
  42. ill Judses oF Theists and Acheists, cher havins condemned many
  43. hearts Theilts, as suiler oF Acheilim, merely because cher distented
  44. Fromthem, in lome ot their Supersticions Rices and Opinions. A
  45. For example; Anaxasoras the Clazomenian, chouch he masthe hest
  46. OE aIl che Tonick Philo(ophers, Cunless Thales oushit to bC excepted)
  47. erho made an Infinite Mind tobe a Principle, chac is, asterted a Dei
  48. Er, accordins to thetrue Nocion oF ic, vet he mas nocmichstandins.
  49. senerally cried donn For an Acheist, merely becaule he astirmed che
  50. Sun tobe urstegt dieervequ, a Massof Fire, Or a Fiery Clobe, and the
  51. Moon to be an Farth, chat is, because he denied them cobc animated
  52. and endued wich Elnderstanding Souls, and consequentr co beCods.
  53. Solikemile soerates was boch accused, and condemned, For Acheicti
  54. a. apole
  55. er

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 129. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0147?run=74