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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 169

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  1. c
  2. ASont of the Worid
  3. etual (15 chac PInKick Nature in AnimalS 15) or at least fome Infertont
  4. Principle, dependine on sueb a sonl. And indecd irtiarever ehe D0
  5. etrinc ot chemodern Peripaterickes be, we malie no doube ac aII buc
  6. chac Aristorle himsele hela che Worlds Animicion or a Mundane
  7. Soul; Forasmuch as he plainly declares himsele concernins it, else.
  8. where inhis Book DeCaelo, alter ehis manneC; aN iIS cdS aI oco (a- Lib. C. 2. 12
  9. TOV USioV aV , i paorad EW id erburco a uZeV 3 r aUna diaevo.
  10. SuEa. Sci ) coG METEXSIICON VONaUBarEW MedEECS X, ECHS BUL We com-
  11. montythink of the Heavens, as nothine else but Bodies and Monads,
  12. havine only a certain Order, but altocether manimate; atirca ve
  13. oueht on the contrary to conceive of them, as partahine of Lise,
  14. and action: chac is, 25 being endued wich a Racional or Inrellectual
  15. Lite. P’or (0 simplicius chere righely expounds che place, Sa ) ci5 vC.
  16. et euzur avr s ooyisC Noymir ezsrrco loxie a5 : ned EeGns
  17. Econs nogmiis nclexdu. 2d acte gd roiciv, n 3 at So Wzcov naerngo
  18. e3p, 1 n7 2 a lb2co) ocoMaTCOV, 2d) reg cv nveius r 2 Nozmior lurcor
  19. arne But we oueht 1o think of the Hleavens, as Animated rith a
  20. Rational Soul, andthereby partahine of action and Lational Li(C. FOr
  21. (Caith he) Thoneh noeir be assirmed not onty of Errational souls, but also
  22. os Tnanimate Bodies, vet the mord recc 3) does onty denominate Kational
  23. Beines. But Further, 1o calee smay aIl manuer oE scruple or doube,
  24. concernins ehis Bultrels; char Philolopher belore in che Tame B00IC,
  25. earios aftirmeth, dn o searos tu ) VXO, n ae ziv nanorcos exd. That 1hC
  26. Fleaven is animated, and hath a Principle of acorion within it sels.
  27. Where by che Heaven, as in mans ocher places oP aristorle and Plato,
  28. is to be understood cheWhole Worid.
  29. There is indeed One Paltire in che Pame Bool De Caelo, irhich aF
  30. Trst Sihe, andsliphelr considered, mar seem eo concradiet chis again
  31. and cheretore probablr isthat, ertrich hach led mans into a contrary
  32. Pertivation, chac Aristorle denied che Worids Animation aMa Un 2Z
  33. vro. Luzs sl’nogor avana ZEonS uerew aldcor. 3de 7d ~ lu2n siou r Civeu rn
  34. roIaUTW ZCOIV aNVTOV n, uanaeiaer avaesun qd s Tuv nivnoir p∞r∞ 614G SOUV,
  35. EPVndTOS 7S necorS OCO a N NCS ry nveiv OWVEZC, a gONOV EvaL ii ndOE
  36. arut Nay isRou easconE EuPecVO. eye unst a0 rn duyn ry = Ou
  37. TCoco Z aVI ravOIS n a VRVOV Z rdalS aVEOIE, aNN avatusion
  38. TEiorss rros pasiegr nalexd aurur aeldior s, à reVTOI. Dut it is not reasonable
  39. neither, torhink that the Heavens continue 10 Pternity, moved by a
  40. Soul necessitatine, or violently compelline them. Nor indeedis it possible,
  41. that the Lise of suet a Soul. stonld be pleasurable or happy. Vorasmuets as the
  42. continual Violent Motion of a Body (naturally inclinine co move another
  43. vay) must needs be a very unquiet ihine, and void of all Alental KC
  44. pose; especially when there is no such Kelaxation, asthe souls of nortal
  45. animals have by seep; and therefore suct a Soul os ihe Woridas this.
  46. must of necessitu be condemned 10 an Eternal Exionian Fate. BUL in
  47. these W ords Aristorte does noc dens cho Heavens 1o be mored by a
  48. Soul oE cheir oin, (Wtich is poluively astirmed by him clemtrere)
  49. buE only by such aSoul, as Bould Violentty and Forcibly agitaLC, O
  50. drire chem round, contrary co cheir onn Natural Inelination Where-
  51. br in the mean cime, cher cended domnwards ot chemselves 1o-
  52. Wards phe Cenere. And tis sence, concernins che Morion oF che
  53. Hlcaveno
  54. CH A P.

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 169. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0189?run=74