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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 190

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  2. acts rithout animal Phaney, oWienOIC, Fxpress Con. sense, and C On
  3. sciounels, and is devoid of Self. perception and Self. enjorment.
  4. 16. Whetherthis Fnerey of the Plastich Nature, be +0 be callec Coei
  5. tation or no but a LoEomachy or Contention abont Words. Granted
  6. that what moves Matrer Vitally, must necds doit by some Enerey os
  7. its omn, distinct from Local Motion; but that there may be a simple
  8. Vital Enerey, ithont that Duplicity Which is in Synalthelis, or clear
  9. and expres Conscionsness. Nevertheless that the Fnerey of Nature mieht
  10. be called a certain Drorsie, 2namakened, or Astonistid Coeitation.
  11. 17. Instances whichrender it probable, thatthere mar be aVit al Ener-
  12. es miihout synasthesis, clear and express con sense, or conscionsness.
  13. 18. The Plastick Nature actine neither Lnorrinely nor Phantastically
  14. acts FatalIY, Magically and SympatheticalIV. The Divine Pams ana
  15. Fate, as to Marter; not mere Cositation in the Mind of Cod, but an
  16. Energetick and Effectual Principle; and the Plastick Nature, te true
  17. and proper FALE OE MAELCE, or the Corporeal Worid. What Masick
  18. is and that Nature Which acts Fatally, acts also Maeically and Sym
  19. pathetically. 29. Thatthe Plastick Nature, thoueh it be the Di
  20. vine Art and Fate, yet for all that, it it neither Ood nor Goddels,
  21. but a Lon and Imperseet Creature, it actins artificially and Rationalls
  22. noothermise, than componnded Forms of Letters, uhen printins Co
  23. herent Philosophick Sence, nor for Ends, than a Sam or Fatchet in
  24. the hands of a shitsul Mechanick. The elastick and regetative Lisc
  25. of Nature the Tomest of al Lives, and Inferiour to the sensitise.
  26. Fieher Providence thanthat of the Plastick Nature eovernins the Cor.
  27. Poreal Worid it self. 20. Normithstandins which forasmuch as the
  28. elastick Nature is a Zife, it must necds belucorporeal. One and the
  29. same thins, havine in it an entire Model and Platsorm, and actins
  30. upon several distant parts os Matter at once coherently, cannot be Cor
  31. poreal; and thoneh Arictorle no where declare whether his Nature be
  32. Corporeal or Incorporeal (which he neither dothelearly concernins the
  33. Rational Soul) and his Follomers conclude it to be Corporeal, pet accord
  34. insto the very Principles of that Philosophy it must needs be othermise.
  35. 21. The Plastick Nature beins Incorporeal, must either be a Lomet
  36. Pover lodeed in Souls thatare also conscions, sensitive or Rational;
  37. or else a distinet substantial Fise by it sels, and Inferiour Kind os
  38. Foul: Hou the Platonilts complicate both these rosether; with AF
  39. Rocles agreeable Determination, that Nature is either Part of a Soulu
  40. or not withont Soul. 22. The Plastick Nature asto animals, accordine
  41. to Aristocle, a Part or Lorver Porver of their Respective Souls. Thal
  42. the Phaenomena prove a Plastick Nature or Aretieus in animals, te
  43. make mhich a. distinet thine from the soul, is to multiplu Entities
  44. mithont necessity. The soul endued mith a Plastick Porver, Ihe chies
  45. Formatrix of its oon Body, the Contribution of certain orher Causes
  46. not excluded. 23. That besides that Plastick Principle in Parrientat
  47. Animals, formine themas so many Zittle ir orids, tere is a General Pla
  48. stick Nature in The mhole Corporeal 2niverse, which lihemise accord
  49. ins to Aristorle is either a Part and Fover Pomer of a Conseion
  50. Muridane Soul, or else somethine dependine on it. 24. Zhat no lessac
  51. cordins to Aristocle than PlatO and SOCTATES, csr selves partake os
  52. Tise from ihe Lise of ihe 2niverse, as vell as ne do of Hseat and Cold
  53. from
  54. Matre

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 190. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0200?run=74